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45: 457: 274: 996: 1376: 436: 448: 424:(the Burmese new year), Thagyamin visits the earth while being invisible. There, he observes every person: he records the names of good people in a golden book, and writes the names of evildoers in a book made of dog-skin leather. On the third day of Thingyan, he returns to heaven. 761: 1303: 1105: 1278: 1263: 1127: 1288: 1213: 1208: 1193: 1079: 1417: 417:. He is the only nat in the official pantheon not to have undergone a sudden and violent death, called a "raw" death (အစိမ်းသေ). 768: 456: 593: 693: 653: 628: 603: 727: 1446: 550: 435: 1410: 578: 713: 44: 1403: 1353: 182: 949: 1436: 781: 754: 389: 205: 123: 111: 101: 746: 1358: 8: 1318: 924: 530: 315: 255: 201: 97: 799: 508: 341: 50: 1084: 944: 851: 564: 414: 1268: 929: 689: 649: 624: 599: 1273: 273: 1391: 1348: 1338: 964: 934: 826: 526: 482: 358:; a common title meaning Lord/King). He is also known by his nickname ''U Magha'' ( 349: 297: 285: 62: 54: 28: 1308: 1293: 1007: 856: 522: 193: 178: 89: 1441: 1387: 919: 898: 831: 381: 319: 174: 160: 145: 34: 1430: 1283: 1238: 974: 888: 841: 66: 1202: 1198: 1177: 969: 939: 914: 893: 883: 867: 846: 498: 209: 197: 93: 58: 420:
According to Burmese traditional folklore, every year at the first day of
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He was designated as the supreme deity of the official pantheon of 37
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practices among the populace and merge these practices with
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in the 11th century, in an effort to streamline animist and
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in the other, and seated or standing atop a three-headed
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A statue of Thagyamin at the Kyauktan Yay-Le Pagoda.
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Index

King of the Gods
King of Heaven

Thagyamin
chief
nat
Shwezigon Pagoda
Pagan Kingdom
Sanskrit
deva
nat
Buddhism in Myanmar
Burmese folk religion
Amarāvati
Indraloka
Svarga
Trāyastriṃśa
Mount Meru
Vajra
Thunderbolt
Astras
Vajra
Indra's net
Airavata
White elephant
Uchchaihshravas
White horse
deva
nat
Buddhism in Myanmar

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