On the first day of the waning moon of the eleventh month which is the beginning of Ok Pansa, people make merit by offering alms to the monks who walk in a procession to receive alms within the temple compound. This event is called Tak Bat Thevo. Tak bat means to offer alms and Thevo comes from Sanskrit Deva meaning gods. The origin of this event went back to the Buddha’s time when once during the rainy season retreat, according to the legend, he went to Heaven to preach to his mother. When he came back to Earth, people presented food to him and to his disciples who came from Heaven to see him off. A kind of food called Khao Tom Luuk Yone is made for this festive season. The word Khao Tom literally means boiled rice; the word Luuk means piece; and the word Yone means to throw. As so many people went to see the Buddha and they might not be able to go near him to offer the food to him, they then wrapped the rice in a kind of leaves so that they could throw the rice into his alm bow.