Do you remember the question in the last two posts? If not, look back to the post titled "coming back!!!", then you will see a question about the wood in the middle of the photo. Well, I do not think many people know the answer or even guess correctly.
Let me try to give you an answer which is based on my uncle narration when I visited the site last few months. My uncle started to tell us about the history of the area that local people known as Prey Yutika (Anchor's Forest). It refers to this wood, it is believed, the left of Siam (Thai) ship's anchor when the came to capture one famous Khmer woman who was living there.
During that time, part of our Kingdom was still under sea water. It was said that there was a Khmer lady who had good smell and long hair and beauty. She was later got married to a man in the same village. Because of her beauty and good smell hair, she became very famous. Word to word, it reached the near by Kingdom, Siam. The Siam King in that time became very interest when he heard about her beauty and keen to have her as his queen. The Siam King tried many times to persuade the good smell lady to married him, but failed.
The Siam King never gave up, he set up a small group of his closed official to find out what best way to capture the lady. The team, then, found that the "Good Smell Hair Lady" love to watch the theatre show very much. Then, they reported immediately to the Siam King. After knowing that the lady loves the theatre show, the King once again commanded a good of theatre performers ship in to the area and organized a performance. No one had notice the bad intention of the King, the villager went to see the performance and really enjoy the show. The "Good Smell Hair Lady" was also one of the spectors. While she was enjoying the show, the secret team of the Siam King kidnapped her and get her on their ship. The ship crew were in a hurry and feared that her husband and villagers found out, they could not get their ship anchor on board, but they just cut the rope and left immediately. So, people speak from one person to another that the wood which left until today over there was the Siam King ship's anchor.
Whether or not true, no one could come up and justify about this matter. But, after listen to my uncle narration, I was very interested by this story. I will try to find further explanation when I go to the site again next time. What do you think about this story?
2 comments:
My sis's name is Vathana too :)
really! very nice to know that. Thank you very much for post a comment on my blog. Very nice day.
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