Reference : AG-1-1/2-243

Name of creator(s) : Anan Ganjanapan

Scope and content : 14-16 March 1987 - Votive ritual to ancestral spirits (Phee Meng) Worship of the white cloth spirit. The supreme spirit medium sits under the wa tree, where the descendants bathe her, after which she is clothed in white cloth and distributes holy threads to the descendants to show that they respect the same ancestral spirit. After entering the pavilion, the ancestral spirit medium lights jong laeng sticks (made using bamboo and cloth, which is dipped into oil and lit in place of candles and incense) to worship the pile of rice that symbolizes the Shwedagon Pagoda, the central religious monument of the Mon people.

Extent and medium : Slide