CAMBODIAN Mountains
Stories
Sdech toek sdech phnom
(
Kampuchea Krom )
There was a king who reigned in the kingdom of Norkor Phnom and did not
have clear name. That king had a daughter with unclear name, too. A lot of
men fell in love with her because she was the most beautiful girl in the
kingdom. The famousness of her beauty spread to two young men of
marriageable age who had just returned from studying magic.
The two men
went together to ask the princess for marriage. At that time, the king said that the two men had to take a test of magic
if anyone won he would marry his daughter to him. They both accepted the
king's purpose. The first man showed the knowledge of magic to make flood
over the area. The second man showed his power to build high mountains to
save the lives of human and animals from the flood.
The deeper water was
the higher mountains were. Finally, the second man won and was married to the princess by the king
and reigned the country. That was why it had names names Sdech Toek
( King of water ) Sdech Phnom ( King of mountains ) until
nowadays.
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