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The Blood Hunter (Part 3): Human skull traces and the mystery beneath the Gươl roof
According to Ka-Tu beliefs, animals also possess a soul that lingers around the Gươl house, where their skulls are hung, thereby attracting their herds (of which they were a part when alive) to the village.
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Blood Hunters (Part 2): Exploring the Life and Culture of the Ka-tu People
Ka-Tu means wild. During my travels, I asked the ethnic people I met: "Where are you from?". "We are from such and such (mơ nui) village. Do you know the Ka-Tu people?" "Yes, they are the people up there, in the mountains."
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Blood Hunter (Part 1): The White Land and the Legend of the Katu People
When I was appointed as the station chief and commander of the post in Ben Hien, I must confess, I had never imagined that right there on that stretch of Annamite land, just a few kilometers from the main road, there existed such a vast territory, a place that seemed completely abandoned to oblivion.
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Was the Sixth Patriarch Huineng Vietnamese?
Did the Sixth Patriarch Huineng truly originate from An Nam? From the records in the Platform Sutra to the hypothesis of Venerable Thich Man Giac, Vi Heritage revisits the scriptures, Tang dynasty geography, and Buddhist studies to examine the origins of the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism.
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Vietnamese people worship their ancestors
Serving one's ancestors is an expression of reverence, for "a tree must have roots to sprout green branches, and a river must have a source to become a vast sea," just as humans must have ancestors to exist in this world.
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Touching the spiritual depth of the Black Ha Nhi people
The ancestral worship culture of the Ha Nhi people is more than just rituals and offerings. It is an art of maintaining the bond between the past and the present, between the glowing hearth and the vast wilderness.
