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Sam Ong Hoo Cherngtalay Shrine Village Procession: Ban Kamala
Local culture
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Sun, 11 October · from 17:30
Bang Tao time (UTC+7)
Sam Ong Hoo Cherngtalay Shrine
Cherng Talay
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Thailand · Phuket · Bang Tao
About the event
In the evening, the deities of Sam Ong Hoo Cherngtalay Shrine are carried in palanquins with their ma song around Ban Kamala, going from house to house to bless the families who have set up altars with offerings at their gates. It is the neighbourly, smaller side of the festival next to the big processions through town. Come in white and keep to the edge of the road; the time follows TAT's schedule and may shift.
From the editors
Sam Ong Hoo keeps three carved deity images over a hundred years old, brought from China, with black, red and green faces, hence the name “three deities”. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Jia Chai) is the nine-day Taoist festival of the Nine Emperor Gods: those who keep it dress in white, give up meat and hold vows of purification, while 39 shrines across the island hold their own rites. A village procession is the smaller form of the street procession: through the ma song, mediums in trance, the gods visit the shrine's own community and bless its homes.