Video Project | Nehru Pry
Once a year, villagers in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat region come together for a traditional ceremony where they go fishing in an ancient pond. The ceremony in Bangkong village may look festive, but beyond the merriment is the belief that the act is an opportunity to ask for forgiveness for unintentional harm they may have caused earthworms and animals when plowing rice fields. It is also a ritual to usher in prosperity to the whole village as they prepare for the new planting season.