The ninth ceremony is from thailand named loy krathong-festival of lihts
celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month (usuall november) the festival is one of best known thai celebrations in the world picturesque banana-leaf floats ornately decked with flowers and variously shaped as lotuses swans zodiac signs or stupas (pagoda-haped structures) are lighted with candles and incense sticks then set adrift on water in rivers canals and ponds said to have evolved from court rituals the loy krathong (loy meaning to float and krathong is in reference to the floated vessel or boat ) ritual bears varying accounts of its origins