Buddhism

is mixed with animism, Shamanism, and nature worship among them; the more educated are Confucians. The ruler is a high priest, as in China. The dead are buried (never burnt). The religious rites are numerous and elaborate. The characters used in writing are like the Chinese. The word has various meanings according to the “tone ” in pronunciation (as in China). The Anamese claim 1100 B.c. as the date of their earliest phone tik writing (Royal Asiatic Socy. Journal, July 1885), As serpent worship prevails in the south, the Chinese name Nagau-nam may mean Naga-nam (“serpent land ”). The people of Tung-kin call the Anamese Kekuangs, recalling the dark Khyens or Kakhyens of Barmah. The Anamese call the Tung-kin people Kepaks, and consider Kambodians and Siamese to be very inferior races. Anam. The god Anam-melech (2 Kings xvii, 31), with A dram me lech, was a deity of Sepharvaim in Me so pot am i a (see Adar and An). These names merely mean “King Anu” and “ King Adar.” Anamim. An Egyptian tribe (Gen. x, 13).