People of Ravana's burned city move to new location (Thai Ramayana mural)
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
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- Bangkok, Thailand
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- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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People of Ravana’s burned city move to a new location, as portrayed in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple.
People of different sizes and colors move along a path, with most carrying bundles of their possessions. A light-skinned man in the front center carries two full baskets hanging from a shoulder pole. Three men walk in a row behind him carrying large boxes or cloth rolls on their right shoulders. A golden-skinned woman sits at left besides two men, one with brown and the other with blue skin. A man with three children, painted like miniature adults, are visible at the lower right.
All these human or demon residents of Ravana’s kingdom are dressed like traditional Siamese peasants, wearing loincloths or simple sarongs.
In the Ramayana, after Ravana’s city on Lanka Island is burned by Hanuman’s flaming body, Ravana builds a new city for his citizens, who move their remaining belongings there to begin a new life.
