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Phuket Travelers' Net - we keep you informed. When the next calender for the Vegetarian Festival '97 is ready, we will of course bring that as well. Until then, enjoy the never sleeping Phuket Travelers' Net. Read also the article, from which the picture right is taken The Power of the Spirits.
The history of the PV Festival goes back to a theater-troupe from China, who toured the island about 170 years ago. Coincidentally, an epidemic (presumedly malaria) broke out at the very same time.
In their distress, the members of the Chinese theater-troupe remembered their old religious crafts. But they had no priest to memorize and conduct the rituals. So they sent messengers back home to China to refresh the old spiritual arts.
Eventually these messengers returned to Phuket and enlightened with the knowledge of how to invoke the spirits, a ceremony began. Shortly after, the deadly disease lost its strangulating grip on the people of Phuket and disappeared.
Since then, an annual ceremony has been held by the Chinese population on Phuket. The event gained greater popularity each year. And now it is not a "Chinese thing" any more, although the Chinese community still is the primus motor of the festival.
In order to invoke the spirits and being able to perform the grueling tasks -all of which are laid out and described in the festival's program- the participants of the processions congregate at their respective temples at dawn. This is marked as "Worship of Gods" in the brochures of the TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand), which is the blueprint for the calendar on the Travelers' Net.
| NB: The time indications are given without guarantee! |
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 12 (First day of the festival):
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 13:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 14:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 15:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 16:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 17:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 18:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 19:
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 20 (Last day of the festival):
Kathu shrine
OCTOBER 11:
17:00 Lantern Pole Raising
24:00 Making of amends to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
Jui Tui shrine
17:09 Lantern Pole Raising
Bang Neow shrine
23:09 Making of amends to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
17:00 Warriors Propitiation and Lantern Pole Raising
Sui Boon Tong shrine
22:00 Making of amends to Siva
23:00 Making of amends to Nine Emperor Gods at Saphan Hin
16:00 Lantern Pole Raising
24:00 Making of amends to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
17:00 Lantern Pole Raising
Cherng Thalay shrine
24:00 Making of amends to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
16:59 Lantern pole Raising
21:09 Making of amends to Siva
23:59 making of amends to the Nine Emperor Gods at Surin Beach
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
?:00 Worship of Gods
Sui Boon Tong shrine
20:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
12:00 and 19:00 Worship of Gods
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food offering to Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
?:00 Worship of Gods. Making of amends to past participants of the festival.
Sui Boon Tong shrine
20:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
07:00 Worship of Gods
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food Offering to Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
05:00 Worship of Gods
16:00 Warriors' Propitiation
16:30 Food Offerings to Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
19:30 Making of Amends to the Birth/Death Gods
Jui Tui shrine
15:09 Food Offering to the Warriors
Bang Neow shrine
20:45 Making of Amends to the Birth/Death Gods
15:00 Food Offering to the Warriors
Sui Boon Tong shrine
15:00 Food Offering to the Warriors
20:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
17:30 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Cherng Thalay shrine
18:30 Making of amends to the Birth/death Gods
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
15:30 Blessing of Bang Tao Village
19:00 Worship of Gods
05:00 and 18:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
?:00 Worship of Gods and making Amends to past participants of the festival
Bang Neow shrine
0?:00 Spirit Propitiation of past participants of the festival
Sui Boon Tong shrine
20:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
12:00 and 19:30 Worship of Gods
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
15:30 Blessing of Manik and Cherng Thalay Villages
19:00 Worship of Gods
15:00 and 18:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
0?:00 Worship of Gods
Bang Neow shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Sui Boon Tong shrine
20:00 Propitiation of the Seven Stars
20:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
24:00 Making of amends to the Gods
07:30 Street Procession in Phuket Town
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
20:09 Propitiation of the Seven Stars
23:00 Worship of Gods
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
16:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
15:09 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Bang Neow shrine
20:09 Fire Walking at Surakun Stadium
07:00 Street Procession in Phuket Town
Sui Boon Tong shrine
14:00 Food Offering to the Warriors
Ban Tha Rue shrine
21:30 Fire Walking
17:00 Food Offering to the Warriors
Cherng Thalay shrine
20:00 Fire Walking
05:30 Worship of Gods
07:30 Street Procession in Thalang
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
19:30 Worship of Gods
21:30 Selection of Servants for priests in the next festival
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
16:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
19:00 Propitiation of the Seven Stars
08:00 Street Procession in Phuket Town
Bang Neow shrine
21:09 Propitiation of the Seven Stars
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Sui Boon Tong shrine
19:00 Climbing Ladders of Knifes
19:00 Worship of Gods
Ban Tha Rue shrine
21:00 Propitiation of the Seven Stars
19:30 Homage to Daily, Monthly and Yearly Gods
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
19:59 Climbing Ladders of Knifes
23:00 Worship of Gods
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
07:00 Street Procession in Phuket Town
12:00 Worship of Gods
16:00 Food Offering to the Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
20:09 Bridge Crossing and Purification
Bang Neow shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Sui Boon Tong shrine
19:00 Fire Walking
22:00 Selection of Servants for Priests for the next festival
20:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Ban Tha Rue shrine
24:00 Making of amends to the Gods
20:00 Symbolic Tying of Children's' Wrists
Cherng Thalay shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
20:09 Fire Walking
21:30 Worship of Gods
05:00 Worship of Gods
Jui Tui shrine
09:30 Selection of Servants to the Priests for the next festival
15:00 Fire Walking
16:00 Offering of Food to the Warriors
18:00 Worship of Gods
20:00 Bridge Crossing and Purification
24:00 Farewell to Siva, the Nine Emperor Gods and the Gods of Birth and Death
15:09 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Bang Neow shrine
23:09 Farewell to Siva
23:45 Farewell to the Nine Emperor Gods at Saphan Hin
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Sui Boon Tong shrine
18:00 Bridge Crossings and Purification
22:00 Farewell to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
07:00 Street Procession in Phuket Town
Ban Tha Rue shrine
15:00 Food Offerings to the Warriors
20:00 Bridge Crossings and Purification
24:00 Farewell to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods
17:30 Food Offerings to the Warriors
Cherng Thalay shrine
20:00 Bridge Crossings and Purification. Farewell to Siva and the Nine Emperor Gods at Nai Yang Beach.
05:30 Worship of Gods
15:00 Offering of Food to the Warriors
18:30 Bridge Crossings and Purification
21:30 Farewell to Siva
22:09 farewell to the Nine Emperor Gods at Surin Beach
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