He says if i have to fish from the ice to. Digital africa starts december twelfth w. How. All we can be the generation that ends it good malaria must die so millions can live. The camero culture originated in the northwestern part of present day cambodia the
first marriage dynasty was founded here in the ninth century. Three hundred years later Jayaraman The Seventh rebuilt the capital on the site of his victory over there come a place drenched with the blood of his enemies and named it encore tong. Today the great city of encore tom could be described as a forest of stone and tangled in a forest of trees this last city very for many centuries is spread out through six square miles of jungle. A traveler from One Thousand Nine Hundred one writes i have found the place where palaces one store the seat of mighty kings long since forgot. These Towering Slabs Of Rock now one with the jungle where the work of
human hands an army of roots creep over and around them like tentacles even the plants seek to destroy. The king of death known to the brahmans as shiva who would throw his enemy to the animals to be devoured appears to have foreseen that men would build palaces and temples as a lasting memorial to their greatness to demolish these monuments he devised other means of destruction like the ruinous fig tree that nothing can withstand. Jayaraman the seventh king to rule over a devastated country the capital had been razed to the ground the Fields Leached Out and most of the Irrigation Systems destroyed his new temple city was laid out on traditional canal lines the Central Temple mount and lies within
a wall surrounded by a moat. Broad dikes decorated with Stylized Cobras Cross over the water the snakes body is held aloft by Fifty Four Giants Gods and demons on either side of the city gate. Jayaraman the seventh built on core tom within the boundaries of the ancient capital of the Canary Empire the power and wealth of the commands stemmed from a special combination of natural advantages and religious ideas. The commands made full use of abundant Water Supplies wild woods and lakes well stocked with fish to develop their culture the remains of complex Irrigation Systems are clear evidence
of their technical prowess these systems allow them to harvest rice three times a year. The temples of encore are all surrounded by wide moats symbolizing Ancient Mythological Oceans in the Center Of The Earth stands the mountain of nehru poll of the forces of the universe and seat of the gods the temple symbolizes this mountain. The Irrigation Systems were also used for the religious ceremonies held in the hundreds of temples that. In the eleventh century that was the central shrine of the canary capital here to the path leading to the pyramid a representation of the Holy Mountain passes over
a reservoir of water. Great skill and artistry are displayed in the reliefs on the walls and doorways of this temple. Close by the socalled kings terraces cover an enormous area Three Hundred meters long and fourteen meters wide wooden buildings once stood here. The king would have watched ceremonies and parades from this Vantage Point and this is where he would have received official guests and settle disputes between his subjects. The diary of a Chinese Traveler and twelve ninety six gives us an impression of court life under the command monarch. When the king leaves the Palace Grounds soldiers march at the
front of his retinue the minister in princes ride on elephants accompanied by more than one hundred gold patent parasols. Behind them comes the king standing on an elephant is priceless sawed in his hand. The tusks of his elephant are incased in gold more than one hundred white sunshades with handles the knobs of gold are held around the king. Girls from the palace accompany the procession around three to five hundred of them dressed in floral robes with Fresh Flowers in their hands. More girls follow carrying lances and shields then come the wives and concubines of the king carried either in letters or a carriage or seated on horses or elephants. Jayaraman the seventh was the first buddhist king of cambodia he saw himself as the Living Buddha at the end of the twelfth century he ordered the building of the Central Temple and uncle aton the day on his religious status and social and military
achievements are illustrated in reliefs around the temple lost. Lives detail scenes from the everyday life of the khmer people correspond perfectly with the Chinese Travelers reports. Rice is cooked in an earthenware pot and the sauce is prepared on an earthenware stove the rice is served on ceramic o. Copper plates from china the source is brought to the table in leaves rolled together to form a small cup. When this cup is full nothing will drip out of it spoons are also fashioned out of these leaves to scoop up liquid food and convey it to the mouth after the meal they are thrown away he continues in this country its the women who do the trading there are no shop premises but instead each of
them spreads out a matter on the ground everyone has their own appointed place i was told that they have to pay the mandarin to hire a patch small purchases are paid for in rice cereals or chinese articles then come textiles only major transactions involve payment in gold or silver naturally the king did not admit to have his great victories and that holds in moralized in stone and proclaim his fame on staley. Ascended into the heavens above the field of battle he eclipse the beauty of the moon and stars the princes of the sky and sharman as brightly as the rising sun. That his gaze every hostile army would flee and tara turning away its face like a young brown good fortune like a shameless and practiced quarter clung readily to the breast of this hero. The magnanimity if this ruler is demonstrated by his recording not only his victories but also his great defeat at the hands of the camel army in eleven Seventy Seven the camp people from the country to the north now the non successfully resisted the expansionist incursions of Jayaraman The Seventh. The architecture of the temple of bay on is quite exceptional. The forty five metre high tower in the center is surrounded by forty nine smaller towers from which One Hundred Seventy Two gigantic faces of buddha gaze outwards in all directions the day on is not only the seat of the gods but also
a manifestation of the kings own divine power they seem to North South East and west. The Comerica Temple Grounds were cities in themselves chronicles described how hundreds of wooden buildings stood between essential shrike and its surrounding walls. These hows the priests and their assistants. According to one account eighteen high priests Two Thousand Seven Hundred Forty officiants two thousand two hundred two Assistant Priests and Six Hundred Fifteen Dancing Girls served in one single shrine and a vast store of treasure was piled up in the shrine five tons of gold plates thirty five. Forty thousand six hundred twenty pearls Four Thousand Five Hundred Forty precious stones Nine Hundred Sixty Seven veils of chinese silk. They are always the last known building to be constructed in the ankara period the golden age of the khmer culture. Anchor tom with its Central Temple the bay on remains a Great Monument to the commander civilization that was ravaged by war and subverted by colonialism and gradually over the centuries sank into oblivion. And. Peace
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