Consecration and Chanting to the Nine Planetary Deities, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2567
Date
22 December 2024
A photo record of the consecration rite and the chanting to the nine planetary deities at Wat Chulamanee — the nine coloured candles, the individual candle bowls and the senior monks seated in meditation — Sunday 22 December B.E. 2567 (2024).
The consecration rite and the chanting to the nine planetary deities was held on the evening of Sunday 22 December B.E. 2567 (2024) at Wat Chulamanee, Bang Chang Subdistrict, Amphawa District, Samut Songkhram Province.
This set records the ritual enclosure with its Buddha images, its many images of Tao Wessuwan, the banana and sugar-cane stems and the rows of hanging yantra cloths with the sacred cord run throughout; the victory candle burning in its glass lantern; the row of nine coloured planetary candles on gilded stands; the brahmin reciting the invocation; the monks chanting blessings; and the senior monks seated individually in meditation to empower the objects.
The participants sat along long tables wearing white head-cords with the sacred cord run down from the ceiling, each with a silver bowl of candles in the colours of the nine planetary deities together with a card bearing their own name and date of birth. The rite closed with the extinguishing of the victory candle and the sprinkling of lustral water.
According to the framed displays set within the ritual enclosure, the temple’s own objects consecrated on this occasion were the “Luean Yot” edition — a medallion in the form of a ceremonial fan of rank with the Solot Mongkhon yantra on the reverse, created to mark the celebration of the ecclesiastical rank of Phra Samut Wachirasophon Vi. (Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro) — and the “Heavenly Decree Tablet” of B.E. 2568. Objects belonging to other temples also entered the same rite.