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Nine-tailed fox. Categories: East Asian legendary creatures. Southeast Asian legendary creatures. Vietnamese mythology.
Vietnamese mythology ( Vietnamese: Thần thoại Việt Nam) comprises folklore, national myths, legends, or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been influenced by historical contact with neighbouring Tai -speaking populations, [ 4 ...
The My Lai massacre ( / miː laɪ / mee ly; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [ 1] At least 347 and up to ...
Illustration of a Mekong giant catfish at a Buddhist temple in Chiang Khong.. The Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas; Thai: ปลาบึก, RTGS: pla buek, pronounced [plāː bɯ̀k]; Khmer: ត្រីរាជ /trəy riec/; Vietnamese: cá tra dầu), is a large, threatened species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the shark catfish family (Pangasiidae), native to the Mekong ...
Southeast Asia (except East Timor) The Krasue ( Thai: กระสือ, pronounced [krā.sɯ̌ː]) is a nocturnal female spirit of Southeast Asian folklore. It manifests as the floating, disembodied head of a woman, usually young and beautiful, with her internal organs still attached and trailing down from the neck. [ 1]
Lạc Long Quân"Dragon King of Lạc"; also called Sùng Lãmis an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynastyof ancient Vietnam. Quân was the son of Kinh Dương Vương, the king of Xích Quỷ. He is the main figure in the Vietnamese myth of Lạc Long Quân - Âu Cơ. According to the myth, Lạc Long Quân married Âu Cơ, a mountain goddess.
1509. Hanoi. All Cham slaves and fugitives in the capital of Hanoi were murdered [ 1] King Lê Uy Mục of the Lê dynasty of Đại Việt. 1782 Saigon massacre. 1782. District 5, Ho Chi Minh City. 4,000–20,000 Chinese civilians. Vietnamese Tây Sơn force under Nguyễn Nhạc.
Mahabharata, Puranas. In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas ( Sanskrit: नाग, romanized : Nāga) [ 1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld ( Patala ), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. A female naga is called a Nagi, or ...