Statue of
U Byatta, i.e.
a male Burmese
spirit or
nat, at Mount
Popa (fig.),
the spiritual abode of the pantheon of nats.
In life, he was Byatta (fig.), the trusted
lieutenant of King
Anawrahta, who was
condemned
and killed on the orders of the King under some trumped-up charges put
forward by his rivals who feared his power. |