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Happy #LunarNewYear🌕🏮2022 is the #YearOfTheTiger 🐯 Here’s a 1916 Thai Phrommachat (horoscope manual) from our #RareBooks collection, noting the qualities of the Tiger along with its Deva & guardian spirit plant.
What will you do with your big cat energy?
Yakkha and Yakkhini, male and female nature spirits, can be found in all shapes and colours in Thai divination manuscripts (Phrommachat) where they are depicted as guardians for people born under a certain sign of the Thai zodiac. https://t.co/edekkMLknE
🧧Happy #LunarNewYear/ #ChineseNewYear!
2021 is the 1st time Thailand has had an official holiday today
For #YearOfTheOx, here's a 19thC Thai Phrommachat from our #RareBooks & Special Collections; here it describes Ox qualities, looking very cheerful, along with its avatar (Deva)
Happy #ChineseNewYear2020!
To welcome the #YearOfTheRat, from our #RareBooks & Special Collections; 19th c. #Thai #Phrommachat, a manuscript #horoscope manual, feat. #animals from #ChineseZodiac, describing the Rat's qualities, here with its avatar (Deva) & guardian spirit plant.