🇹🇭 THAILAND | Nang Songkran 2023: Kimita Devi 💦
โพสท์โดย อ้ายเติ่งกิมิทาเทวี: นางสงกรานต์ พ.ศ.๒๕๖๖
🔸 "Kimita Devi" the Songkran goddess of the year 2023, wears a bangle, her gem is topaz, she dresses elegantly and has a lotus behind her ear, and her food is water banana.
Her right hand holds a sword and a vina (pin: พิณ) in her left hand.
She sitting on the back of Mahingsa (Buffalo).
✦ “Kimita Devi” is one of the 7 goddess daughters of King Kabilaprom and a symbol of the Songkran festival.
✦ Songkran is the Thai new year festival from the 13th to the 15th of April every year. There are seven Songkran ladies depending on the day of Maha Songkran. In 2023, Maha Songkran Day is Friday. Therefore, the Songkran lady of this day was 'Kimita Devi'.
✦ The beauty of a goddess named "Kimita Devi", the Songkran goddess of the year 2023, wears a bangle, her gem is topaz, she dresses elegantly and has a lotus behind her ear, and her food is water banana.
Her right hand holds a sword and a vina (pin: พิณ) in her left hand.
She sitting on the back of Buffalo.
✦ Songkran origin is associated with the death of the Buddha Kapila Brahma.
Having heard of the cleverness of a boy named Thammabal, the god decided to challenge the boy with a riddle, in which the loser will lose his head. Unfortunately, the boy won and the god had to cut off his head. However, the god’s head would cause disasters if it drops into the ground, or ocean, or is thrown into the air.
To avoid bad things, one of the 7 daughters of the god, called Nang Songkran, puts their father’s head on a tray to carry and formed a procession to Mount Meru every month when the Sun moves to another zodiac.
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✦ Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์) is the Thai New Year's national holiday.
The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti: संक्रान्ति literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Hindu Calendar and Buddhist calendar.
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