Identifier: mythologyofall12gray (find matches)
Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis Herbert, 1875- ed Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931, joint ed MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950. joint ed
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is Royalsway are many and varied, and therefore is his capital happy andprosperous. The great mountains of rock covered with sal- andmalla-tvees are now the dwelling-place of the Nats. Theirretreat is gorgeous with gems and responds to the prosperityof the country. There lives Her Majesty, the Chief Queen,the Lady of the Golden Palace, and there also lives her mightybrother, renowned for his valour and the strength of his body.These two are by Royal Decree rulers over a vast stretch ofcountry over which they keep watch and ward. By RoyalCommand, issued at the desire of a high-placed Queen, the PLATE XVIII An Avatar Play Plays in Burma are always performed in the openair, and there is no charge for admission, the costbeing borne by some pious member of the com-munity to celebrate a festival or a domestic event.The circular frame is fitted with drums and gongs,and is called Saing-waing or Kyi-waing. The figuresto the right of it are the prince (in the centre)and the clown (on his left).
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THE THIRTY-SEVEN NATS 347 Chief Queen, whose birth was lowly, was consigned to the flameswith her brother and was burned to death. The mighty moun-tain (Poppa) is now the abode of their manes. (Then the musicbreaks in, and the frenzied dance begins.) At Poppa the Chief Queen, Hnit-ma-daw, Taung-gyi-shin,the Shwe Myet-hna Nat, is always worshipped along with herbrother, but this does not seem to be the case in the greaterpart of Burma and certainly not in Lower Burma. At PoppaHill she has a special chant of her own, which runs as follows: With a white scarf wound round my head, a jacket em-broidered in silver and gold, with wide fringes and tight sleeves,a cotton petticoat (in the case of male Nats the mediums, whoare nearly always women, wear the masculine paso, or waist-cloth) with an ornamental border, and a girdle laced over withgold, I, the Queen of Tagaung, the fondly loved and blamelessdaughter of the Myothugyi (mayor) of Tagaung, Maung TinDaw, have decked myself and come. (In t

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