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Cojvuengz, the Ancestral King, is the younger of the two royal step-brothers of the Hanvueng epic. Like 'Goose King', the name is a title: the heir who inherits his father's domain together with his political and ritual authority. After his elder step-brother withdraws to rule the sky, the Ancestral King governs the earthly kingdom, bound each year to make offerings of fruit, wine, tea, fish and buffalo upward. As progenitor of the chiefly line he embodies legitimate inheritance and ancestral authority, and the epic of the brothers' enmity is recited by Zhuang ritualists to mend feuds within families.
Domains
chieftaincy and ancestral authority
Powers
to inherit the chiefly domain and its political and ritual authority
Holm, David, and Meng Yuanyao. Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King — An Epic from Guangxi in Southern China. Zhuang Traditional Texts 1. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Jonsson, Hjorleifur. Review of 'Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King', by David Holm and Meng Yuanyao. Religious Studies Review 43, no. 1 (2017).