devaraja

devaraja
In ancient Cambodia, the cult of the "god-king," established early in the 9th century by Jayavarman II (с 770–850), founder of the Khmer empire.

The cult taught that the king was a manifestation of the god Shiva. For centuries it provided Khmer kings with the religious basis of their royal authority.

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▪ ancient Cambodian religion
      in ancient Cambodia, the cult of the “god-king” established early in the 9th century AD by Jayavarman II, founder of the Khmer empire of Angkor. For centuries, the cult provided the religious basis of the royal authority of the Khmer kings.

      The devarāja cult grew out of both Hindu and indigenous traditions. It taught that the king was a divine universal ruler, a manifestation of the Hindu god Śiva, whose divine essence was represented by the linga (or lingam), a phallic idol housed in a special mountain temple.

      The king was deified in an elaborate and mystical ceremony, requiring a high priest, in which the divine essence of kingship was conferred on the ruler through the agency of the linga. The safeguarding of the linga became bound up with the security of the kingdom, and the great temple architecture of the Khmer period attests to the importance attached to the belief.

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