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A spirit house is a shrine to the protective spirit of a place that is found in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. They are normally in the form of small roofed structure mounted on a pillar or a dais , and can range in size from small platforms to houses large ...
Festival brings noise and colour to Taungbyone Zaw Win Than, The Myanmar Times Vol. 22 No. 430, August 4–10, 2008; Myanmar Nat Pwe in Bago Flickr photos by Boonlong1; My House Nat Can Whip Your House Nat Ethan Todras-Whitehill, Student Traveler, 2006-11-24; An account of the Taungbyone 2010 nat pwe spirit festival at Arcane Candy Part 1 and ...
Burmese folk religion refers to the animistic and polytheistic religious worship of nats (deities of local and Hindu origin) and ancestors in Myanmar (Burma). Although the beliefs of nats differ across different regions and villages in Burma, there are a handful of beliefs that are universal in Burmese folk religion. A nat is a god-like spirit ...
According to Burmese legend the site where the Sule pagoda now stands was once the home of a powerful nat (spirit) named Sularata (the Sule Nat). The king of the Nats, Sakka , wished to help the legendary king Okkalap build a shrine for Lord Buddha's sacred hair-relic on the same site where three previous Buddhas had buried sacred relics in ...
' Tree Guardian Spirit '), are Burmese nats (spirits) who serve as guardians of the trees. They are related to Bhummaso ( ဘုမ္မစိုး ; bhūmideva), spirits that inhabit the earth; and Akathaso ( အာကာသစိုး ; ākāsadeva), spirits that inhabit the sky.
Shwe Kyunbin Maunghnama (Burmese: ရွှေကျွန်းပင်မောင်နှမ; lit. ' Golden tectona siblings ') are traditional nats of Shan ethnicity commonly venerated in the vicinity of some villages near Mandalay and Sagaing. The nat festival in honour of the spirits of Shwe Kyunbin brother and sister is alive with the ...
The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and ...
A closer view of Thatbyinnyu Phaya. The Thatbyinnyu is a five-story brick masonry building topped by a sikhara tower with a hti at the pinnacle. "Somewhat similar to" the nearby Ananda Temple in its architectural style, the temple's exterior is covered in white stucco, and its terraces paved in stone. [5]