Sunday 11 October 2015

Phra Rahu

  During the time, ancient times when the human being does not exist, a celestial creator of the heavenly realm by the name of Phra Isuan has the super divinity power.When he saw the planet was in total darkness, he creates a god name the Sun of God to provide light for the planet however he feels that something was missing as burning heat lasted every moment so he created another "cooling god" which is the God of Moon. He ordered the 2 god to be on duty by rotation hence, there are day and light.

  Following that Phra Isuan, created Phra Narai who become his overall assistant to take charge of all the affairs in the planet world. He feels that he need to have deities to guard each day of the week and these 7 deities were the gods of the constellations.

   
  One day,when Phra Isuan was performing his astounding acts, he accidentally burnt 12 magical hats, when the hats turned into ashes,they suddenly transformed into a monster-like creature was he named it Rahu. Left with no choice, he arranged Rahu as rank 8, from then on, Sunday was taken charge by 1st constellation, Monday was taken by 2nd constellation and so on. 

  Rahu represents number 8. Its face was depicted as that of an Asura with a glistening body and the lower body has a tail of a dragon. The characteristic of Rahu was unique.  It's a lone ranger, fond of anything that can create numbness, a special liking towards the color of black and darkness. he also enjoys combating with other deities as it possessed high spiritual powers, it always got the upper hand so many deities started to dislike Rahu.


  One day, the deities united to raise their grievances to Phra Isuan. After verified on the complaint, he realized that the various deities have been cursed by Lersi Tulawatsat that they will always defeat in the fight. Phra Isuan ordered Phra Narai to arrange for a grand ritual ceremony to serve celestial holy water to be consumed by the various deities so their power can be strengthened intensely and attain an imperishable body.

  
  Phra Narai acted according to and gathers all the deities and the celestial dragon for the ceremony. First of all, he requested the celestial dragon to curl up a mountain range and somersault in the sky. The deities were to use their strength to assist the dragon's body to somersault, however, the various deities were unable to do so due to their limited strength. Phra Narai discovered something is not right, so he decided to ask asuras for their help in assisting the ceremony. Phra Narai promised the Asuras that when the holy water is obtained it will be shared among the asuras who helped so Rahu with the rest of the asuras accepted his offer.

  Phra Narai instructed the Deities and Asura to be position at the tail of the dragon and the head of the dragon respectively. However the Deities rushed to the tail of the dragon and the Asuras started to doubt something is not right. They later discovered the dragon will release poisonous energy from its head. The asuras complained to Phra Narai that they wanted to avoid of being poisoned. Phra Narai then ordered Phra Siva to take a look and confirmed to be true. Phra Siva used all his force to suck in all the poisonous energy emitted from the dragon's head and later used his power to decipher the poison. This was the reason why Phra Siva body was black in color.


  After much effort, they finally obtained the holy water. However due to his limited , up to the consumption of 10. Phra Narai came up an idea to turn himself into a charming lady to lure the asuras to the other side of the mountain to prolong the time. But Rahu was not seduced by the charming woman and he noticed the various deities was about to drink the holy water so he manifested itself into a deity and joined the queue. 


  However, he was careless enough to forget to manifested his tail and was noticed by God of sun and God of the moon who rushed to inform Phra Narai. Phra Narai becomes angry and raised his lotus wheel to flung towards Rahu. At the spur of the moment as Rahu was drinking the holy water, the wheel slit through its body and cut into 2. Since Rahu drank the holy water, it had already possessed an imperishable body.


Effects of Phra Rahu 

Protection from harm
Good Luck
Protection from backstabber 
Convert Bad Luck to Good luck.

               The 8 kinds of Food for Offering to Phra Rahu

Black Grapes for good business
Black Liqueur for courage to risk or invest
Black Coffee for you will get whatever you wish for 
Black Jelly or Grass Jelly for patience and graceful thought
Black Beans for progress
Black Sticky Rice for wealth and love from family
Black Thai Cake for rewards,success, and good luck
Black Fermented Eggs for successful contact or errands

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