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RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY

 

 

 

  Phanthumatiraat

 

Thailand

Statue of Phaya Phanthumatiraat, the legendary king of Chiang Rai's myth of Sih Hoo Hah Tah (fig.), a local mythological creature with four ears and five eyes, that eats red-hot charcoal, which it defecates as pure gold.