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Myanmar: Deep into mystical Burma
Myanmar: Deep into mystical Burma
Myanmar (former Burma) is a land of great contradictions. Its spirititual people are heart-warmingly friendly but its military rule has a bad reputation where human rights are concerned. And although essentially a poor country, the landscape is dotted by gold-covered religious buildings. As most travellers visit Myanmar for highlights such as the medieval Bagan temple-complex and the mountain locked Inle Lake, it is while travelling its tree-shaded countryside roads that the true beauty of this mystical country reveals itself.
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’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](/img/spacer.gif "Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.689]
’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
[BURMA 24.689]
’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[BURMA 24.689]
’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
’Tiger statue.’
At the ’planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is scooping water from a silver bowl. She will pour the water on the tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday, thus ritually washing it. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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