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Phi Pakam
Phi Pakam Ajing (ผีปะกำอาจีง) or Phi Pakam (ผีปะกำ) is the supreme god of the forests according to the beliefs of the Kui people. They are worshipped in particular by elephant keepers. Etymology ''Phi'' means ghosts or spirits. In the Kui language Kui language may refer to: * Kui language (India), a Dravidian language of eastern India (Odisha and Andhra Pradesh) spoken by the Khonds Khonds (also spelt Kondha and Kandha) are an indigenous Dravidian tribal community in India. Traditio ..., the word ''Pakam'' (ปะกำ) means noose while ''Ajing'' (อาจีง)" means elephants, thus the name ''Pakam Ajing'' means elephants tied together by a noose. Kui people believe that the spirit resides in the Pakam skin made out of cowhide or buffalo hide and wood (called a Wal Praeng (วาลแปรง) in Kui), which can be twisted to form a leather rope of 40 meters long, one end of which is a noose used to tether elephants. Beliefs Th ...
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Kui People
The Kuy (, ) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and south to north central Cambodia. The Kuy are an ethnic minority in all three countries, where they live as "hill tribes" or Montagnards. Their language is classified as a Katuic language of the Mon-Khmer language family. The Thais, Lao, and Khmer traditionally recognize the Kuy as the aboriginal inhabitants of the region. The word ''kuy'' in the Kuy language means "people" or "human being"; alternate English spellings include Kui, Kuoy and Kuay, while forms similar to "Suay" or "Suei" are derived from the Thai/Lao exonyms meaning "those who pay tribute". The Kuy are known as skilled mahouts, or elephant trainers, and many Kuy villages are employed in finding, taming, and selling elephants. Kuy people occupied the region west of the Mekong and northeast of ...
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Mahout
A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper. Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use. Traditionally, mahouts came from ethnic groups with generations of elephant keeping experience, with a mahout retaining his elephant throughout its working life or service years. Etymology The word ''mahout'' derives from the Hindi words ''mahaut'' (महौत) and ''mahavat'' (महावत), and originally from the Sanskrit '' mahamatra'' (महामात्र). Another term is ''cornac'' or ''kornak'', which entered many European languages via Portuguese. This word derives ultimately from the Sanskrit term ''karināyaka'', a compound of ''karin'' (elephant) and ''nayaka'' (leader). In Kannada, a person who takes care of elephants is called a ''maavuta,'' and in Telugu the word used is ''mavati''; this word is also derived from Sanskrit. In Tamil, the word used is ''pahan'', which means 'elephant keeper', and in Sinhala ('stable master ...
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Kuy Language
Kuy, also known as Kui, Suay or Kuay (; ), is a Katuic language, part of the larger Austroasiatic family spoken by the Kuy people of Southeast Asia. Kuy is one of the Katuic languages within the Austroasiatic family. It is spoken in Isan, Thailand by about 300,000 people, in Salavan, Savannakhet and Sekong Provinces of Laos by about 64,000; and in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng and Kampong Thom Provinces of northern Cambodia by 15,500 people. Names Spelling variants and varieties include the following (Sidwell 2005:11). *Kui *Kuy *Kuay *Koay *Souei. The term "Souei" is also applied to other groups, such as a Pearic community in Cambodia. *Yeu *Nanhang *Kouy. A textbook in French is published for this variantParlons Kouy. Dialects Van der haak & Woykos (1987-1988) identified two major Kui varieties in Surin and Sisaket provinces of eastern Thailand, Kuuy and Kuay. Van der haak & Woykos also identified the following ''divergent'' Kui varieties in Sisaket Province, Thail ...
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