Donald Swearer, Sommai Premchit, Phaithoon Dokbuakaew

ISBN: 9749575482
SILKWORM PRESS
2005 - Paperback - 112 Seiten

The mountains of northern Thailand constitute part of northern Thai identity . Drawing on the legendary histories of three mountains in the region - Doi Ang Salung Chiang Dao, Doi Suthep, and Doi Kham - coauthor Donald Swearer explores the various ways that mountains in northern Thailand are seen as sacred space, and therefore as an environment to be respected rather than exploited.

The volume presents, in English translation, the stories associated with these sacred sites as recorded in the legendary chronicles, or tamnan, of the story of the Chiang Dao mountain and cave, the account of the enshrining of the Buddha relic on Doi Suthep, and the interwoven legends of the hermit Wasuthep, the demons Pu Sae and Ya Sae, the chief Wilangkha, and the queen Chamathewi.
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