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The stories of Naga

1. The word Naga means snake or cobra in Sansakrit (Indian's)

2. Naga combines crocodile, elephant, and serphant look.

3. Nagas live in their paradises in the rivers, lakes, or seas.

4. Hindu myth: It was born from the mouth of Makara, the vehicle for the god of the sea and the goddess of the river.

The picture of Makara pouring Nagas out of his/her mouth.

Makara is the one having big teeth at the middle with elephant proboscis and four nagas are swimming around.

This locates in Wat Suthat, BKK.

5. Thai myth: Every naga is the child of the King Anantanagaraj, the naga that being as throne of the king Narai and having infinite long body with thousand of heads, high power, and can be tranformed into human-look. (Ananta means infinite) He doesn't give poison but fire.

6. The naga isn't a human therefore they cannot be enlighten which they are really wanted to be. They negotiated with the Buddha that they won't be ordained but they asked to be the guardian of the Buddha and Buddhist. We can see from the most of the balustrades to temples.

7. During the Buddha enlightenment, there was raining and windy. One naga named: Mujalin, curled himself up seven times as the seat and spread his seven heads out as the cover for the Buddha, representing as the guardian of the Buddha.

8.One naga drank all the water in human world and fly up to the Sumaru mountain (this mountain is floating in the sky as a heaven). The king Indra saw what was happening, he stabbed that naga with his thunder and the water inside the naga's body poured into the human world becoming the rain and the abundance of life.

9. There are 2048 types of naga,

- 4 colours: golden, green, black, rainbow

- 4 wounds from naga: pus, paralysis, erupt, thunder (after these symptoms is death)

- 4 ways to give poison: bite, eyes, breath, body

- how fast of poison spreading: immediate and harmful, harmful but slow, immediate but not harmful at all, not harmful and slow spreading.

- 4 births: from egg, from pregnancy, from filthiness, immediately grow.

- 2 briths: in the water, above the ground.

- 4 amounts of heads: 1,3,5,7. (Nine-head is for royalty only)

Kam-cha-node forest

The tunnel bringing the naga from the underworld to human world.

I think this forest was similar to our pond

 which is that the pond (tunnel) is at the middle surrounding with Chamchuree trees.

I may make some installation that makes something unbelievable believable by using water. Using types of naga and those stories like pouring or the god's throne to show respect to the god (to the site is the kings' statue)

The trunk of Kamchanode tree.