KRA LOY KRATHONG A FESTIVAL FOR EVERYONE WORK SHEET 6/1 LOY g, the Festival. The Story of Nobamas and King Ruang Water Water many festivals and interesting there are Loy is a country festivals is Loy popular ceremonies. One of about there for is sure that are of the If you are in Thailand in November, make and enjoyable events the Loy Festival, one of the most popular year. Well, literally it means a What does Lo mean interesting, but there's float leaf cup That in itself doesn't sound too ceremony story about the cup, in this story and Back in the thirteenth century when the Siamese King Ruang rules the Kingdom of Sukhothai, there was a beautiful young maiden called Nobamas She was the daughter of a famous and wise Brahmin and everybody admired her for her intelligence, beauty, and cheerful nature. Even the king noticed her gentleness and beauty and he fell in love and married her. soon after their marriage, a Buddhist ceremony of purification took place but because Nobamas was a Brahmin she was unable to take part in the ceremony. Instead, she remained faithful to her Brahmin beliefs and to the idea that to ask for anything that you have done wrong, you must make an offering to the river Gods, the only spirits with the power to purify you. She made a beautiful floating cup in the shape of a lotus out of leaves and flowers. Inside offerings of a betel nut wrapped in its leaf, incense sticks and a lighted candle and pushed it out into the river moved King Ruang watched Nobamas as she made her offering and was deeply the what she saw. To show his love and respect for her he mad sure that the members of his court repeated this ceremony each November on the night of full moon. home people are devout Buddhists, but many also believe that spirits live everywhere, in every part of creation, in an ear of rice, in every corner of the in the waters of the rivers and canals, home of the mighty river goddess, Mae Khong Ka.