THAILAND 🇹🇭 | Thungsa Devi: Songkran Goddess 2025

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Songkran is the Thai New Year festival, celebrated annually from April 13th to 15th. There are seven Songkran goddesses, each representing the day of Maha Songkran. In 2025 Maha Songkran fell on a Sunday, meaning the Songkran goddess of the year was 'Thungsa Devi.
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🔴 SUNDAY: Thungsa Devi (ทุงษะเทวี), Special Characteristics of 'Thungsa Devi':
- Flower: Pomegranate
- Jewelry Stone: Ruby
- Food: Cluster Fig
- Right Hand: Discus
- Left Hand: Conch
- Conveyance: Garuda

✦ Songkran's origin is associated with the death of the Buddha Kapila Brahma.
Having heard of the cleverness of a boy named Thammabal, the god decided to challenge the boy with a riddle, in which the loser would lose his head. Unfortunately, the boy won, and the god had to cut off his head. However, the god’s head would cause disasters if it dropped into the ground or ocean or if it were thrown into the air.
To avoid bad things, one of the 7 daughters of the god, called Nang Songkran, puts their father’s head on a tray to carry and forms a procession to Mount Meru every month when the Sun moves to another zodiac.
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✦ Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์) is the Thai New Year's national holiday.
The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti: संक्रान्ति literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Hindu Calendar and Buddhist calendar.
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✦ “Songkran in Thailand, Traditional Thai New Year Festival” has been included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
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