The ruler from a bamboo shootSourced
A kingdom's origin story begins with a man emerging from bamboo.
An origin myth of the Mori polity in present-day Sulawesi, Indonesia, tells of a supernatural man emerging from a bamboo shoot. He marries a chief's daughter and becomes ruler. It is a traditional story, not a documented birth record.
Its beginning was imagined in a plant.
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