Steel Cast Mural at Wat Traimit, Bangkok, Thailand

 

Steel mural at Wat Traimit, Bangkok, Thailand

Top center: Phra Mae Thorani, Mother Earth Goddess, personified as a young woman wringing the cool waters of detachment out of her hair.

Center right: large beaked Garuda bird man with a seven headed nagaraja above it, is apparently reaching down and holding the breast of a woman awash in the flow of water wrung from Phra Mae Thorani’s hair.

Center left: Note the large fish having a meal.

Bottom center: The elephant is perhaps Airavat, the white elephant carrying the diety Indra

27 October 2017

Sony A7R2; 90mm f2.8 macro G; f/4.5;1/160 sec.; ISO 125

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