{"id":16597,"date":"2019-10-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/10\/02\/in-vietnam-men-parade-but-women-rule-at-a-festival-called-kate\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:00:00","slug":"in-vietnam-men-parade-but-women-rule-at-a-festival-called-kate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/10\/02\/in-vietnam-men-parade-but-women-rule-at-a-festival-called-kate\/","title":{"rendered":"In Vietnam, Men Parade but Women Rule at a Festival Called Kate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-vietnam-minorities-cham\/in-vietnam-men-parade-but-women-rule-at-a-festival-called-kate-idUSKBN1WF2CX\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHAN RANG, VIETNAM, September 30, 2019 (Reuters): Thousands of Vietnam&#8217;s ethnic Cham people met under rainy late September skies for their annual &#8220;Kate&#8221; festival that, according to the multi-faith community&#8217;s calendar, marks the end of one harvest season and the beginning of another. The Cham are descendents of a powerful ancient kingdom that once spanned large parts of central and southern Vietnam a millennium ago. They are a traditionally matriarchal society, which worships a female Goddess and expects the youngest daughter to inherit family assets. A rich history of trading and movement across Asia have made the Cham a uniquely multi-faith group, divided into predominantly Hindu and Muslim branches, all of whom come together to celebrate &#8220;Kate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the Po Klong Garai temple in the southern town of Phan Rang &#8211; a Vietnamese rendering of Panduranga, the Cham Kingdom&#8217;s ancient capital &#8211; dozens of men in bright red and white traditional costume paraded with a sacred garment. The holy dress, which is kept in the nearby commune of Phuoc Ha, is brought to the crumbling, clay-brick 13th Century temple, within which lies a statue of the Hindu God Shiva. Behind a small door, the deity is dressed in the sacred Cham garments by religious leaders, who perform traditional rites and blessings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PHAN RANG, VIETNAM, September 30, 2019 (Reuters): Thousands of Vietnam&#8217;s ethnic Cham people met under rainy late September skies,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}