the mutual that reblogged 30 pictures of Angkor

The temple (in the front) was built by Jayavarman VII, but local legend suggests otherwise. It tells a story of a young commoner woman called Pow, who was visited by a king, who visited the lake for a vacation. The king liked the woman so much he made her a consort and the two dated while king was living in her homeland. But instead of taking his lover back to the palace, he decided to return alone but gifted the consort a ring and told her: "If you give birth to a son, when he grows up, send him to find me and make him wear this ring, so i recognise him". Just like the king said, Pow had a boy, named him Prohm (Brahma) and raised him until he turned 16. The boy asked his mother who his father was and upon learning the story he decided to travel to royal palace. The woman gave him the ring and a horse to ride on. The boy travelled for days until he finally reached his destination. Stopping at the gates, Prohm told the guards he was the royal son and told them to report to the king. Upon hearing the news, the king came out to see the young man and immediately recognised the ring on his finger. Delighted, he declared his son the prince of his and his mother's homeland and named it Bati, after which the lake and the river that flowed into it got their name. First thing Prohm did after becoming a prince was ordering to build two temples - Ta Prohm, named after the god who was the prince's namesake, and a smaller temple named Yeay Pow after his mother.

Sihanoukville

Unnamed altar in a cave, Phnom Chhngok

Khmer Theravada temple in Soc Trang, Southern Vietnam