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 "id": "phaya-nak",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "พญานาค",
  "roman": "phaya nak",
  "en": "Naga pendant",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "นาค",
    "นาคราช",
    "พญาศรีสุทโธนาคราช",
    "องค์นาคา"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "phaya naga",
    "nak",
    "nakkharat"
   ],
   "en": [
    "Phaya Naga",
    "Naga king",
    "serpent-lord amulet"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th",
  "th-isan"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "thep_thewada",
  "functions": [
   "chok_lap",
   "metta_maha_niyom",
   "khum_khrong"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "nuea_loha",
   "thonglueang",
   "nuea_phong",
   "nuea_waan"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "deity",
   "animal"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "figure",
  "shape_th": "รูปหล่อพญานาคชูคอแผ่พังพาน หัวเดียวหรือหลายหัว หรือเหรียญ",
  "shape_en": "Cast figure of a hooded serpent rearing, one head or several; also struck medallions and resin-and-powder figures",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "ห้อยคอ พกกระเป๋า หรือตั้งบูชา",
  "wearable_en": "Worn at the neck, carried, or set on a shrine",
  "obverse_th": "นาคแผ่พังพาน มีหงอนและเครา บางองค์ถือแก้วมณี",
  "obverse_en": "Hooded naga with crest and beard, sometimes with a jewel in the mouth or coils",
  "reverse_th": "ยันต์ ชื่อวัดหรือสำนัก",
  "reverse_en": "Yantra; wat or shrine name",
  "notes_en": "Forms are trade description; the 2022 government prototype gives four naga families in distinct colours (en Wikipedia)."
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 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "งูใหญ่แผ่พังพาน",
   "en": "great serpent with spread hood"
  },
  {
   "th": "หงอน เครา",
   "en": "crest and beard"
  },
  {
   "th": "หลายเศียร",
   "en": "multiple heads on some"
  },
  {
   "th": "แก้วมณี",
   "en": "jewel (trade)"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "หลายวัดและสำนัก โดยเฉพาะอีสานลุ่มน้ำโขง",
  "maker_en": "Many wats and shrines, above all along the Mekong in Isan",
  "era_th": "กระแสบูชานาคยุคปัจจุบัน; ครม. ประกาศเป็นเอกลักษณ์ประจำชาติ พ.ศ. 2565",
  "era_en": "The present naga cult; the cabinet named the naga a national symbol in November 2022",
  "place_th": "คำชะโนด อุดรธานี · หนองคาย · ทั่วประเทศ",
  "place_en": "Kham Chanot (Udon Thani), Nong Khai, nationwide",
  "first_attested": "2022 national-symbol designation (en Wikipedia) — for the modern cult, not the belief"
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "งูมีหงอนและพังพาน — งูไม่มีหงอนคืองูธรรมดา ครุฑมีปีก",
   "en": "A serpent with crest and hood; without the crest it is a plain snake, and a winged bird-man is Garuda",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-nak",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "นาคปรก คือพระพุทธรูปมีนาคแผ่พังพานคลุม — เป็นพระเครื่อง ไม่ใช่นาคเดี่ยว",
   "en": "A naga hood over a seated Buddha is นาคปรก, class phra_khrueang (the Mucalinda episode); the naga alone is this kind",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-nak",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "รูปหล่อสมัยใหม่มักลงสีหรือเคลือบ มีชื่อสำนักที่ฐาน",
   "en": "Modern casts are often painted or enamelled, with the shrine's name on the base",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "สี่ตระกูลสี่สี ตามต้นแบบราชการ พ.ศ. 2565",
   "en": "Four naga families in four colours per the 2022 government prototype, with Nak Vasuki as the lead form",
   "source": "s:en-wiki-naga",
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "phaya-khrut",
   "tell_th": "ครุฑมีปีกและจะงอยปาก คู่ปรับของนาค · นาคเป็นงูมีหงอน",
   "tell_en": "Garuda is winged and beaked, the naga's enemy; the naga is a crested serpent. Same deva-tier class."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-kru",
   "tell_th": "พระนาคปรกจากกรุเป็นพระพุทธรูปใต้พังพาน — พระเครื่อง ไม่มีผู้อยู่",
   "tell_en": "A cache นาคปรก is a Buddha under the hood: phra_khrueang, nobody home. This kind is the serpent alone, venerated."
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-rahu",
   "tell_th": "ราหูอมจันทร์ หน้ายักษ์ไม่มีตัว · นาคมีลำตัวขด",
   "tell_en": "Rahu is a bodiless giant's face swallowing the moon; the naga has a coiled body"
  },
  {
   "id": "jatukham",
   "tell_th": "จตุคามเป็นเหรียญกลมใหญ่รูปเทพนั่ง อาจมีนาคล้อมขอบ",
   "tell_en": "A Jatukham is a large round disc with a seated deity, sometimes ringed by nagas; the naga here is the whole figure"
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  "search": [
   "พญานาค"
  ],
  "excludes": [
   "บั้งไฟพญานาค"
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  "tier": "both"
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 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [
   "Category:Nāga in Thailand"
  ],
  "commons_files": [
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   "File:Nāga in Nong Khai 1.jpg",
   "File:Naga statue doi suthep.jpg",
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  "wanted_en": "Free files show shrine and temple nagas, and one cache นาคปรก tablet for contrast. Needed: a cast naga pendant front and back, and a painted resin naga figure of the current cult."
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 "text": {
  "what_th": "จี้หรือรูปหล่อพญานาค เจ้าแห่งงูและน้ำในความเชื่อไทย-ลาว ผู้เฝ้าแม่น้ำโขง เป็นเครื่องรางที่นิยมที่สุดของยุคนี้ ขอโชคลาภและเมตตา",
  "what_en": "A pendant or small cast figure of the naga, serpent-lord of water in Thai-Lao belief and keeper of the Mekong. The most fashionable deity object of the present decade, asked for luck and favour.",
  "story_th": "ตำนานว่านาคสองตนเลื้อยเกิดเป็นแม่น้ำโขงและแม่น้ำน่าน อีสานเชื่อว่าบั้งไฟพญานาคกลางโขงคือฤทธิ์นาค คำชะโนดเป็นวังนาค ในพุทธศาสนานาคมุจลินท์แผ่พังพานกันฝนให้พระพุทธเจ้า เป็นที่มาของปางนาคปรก พ.ศ. 2565 รัฐบาลประกาศให้นาคเป็นเอกลักษณ์ประจำชาติ",
  "story_en": "Legend has two nagas carve the Mekong and the Nan with their bodies; Isan reads the Mekong fireballs as naga breath and Kham Chanot as a naga palace. In Buddhism the naga Mucalinda shields the Buddha from rain, the source of the นาคปรก image. In 2022 the cabinet named the naga a national symbol for cultural and creative-economy ends, and the pendant trade rode the same wave.",
  "keeping_th": "บูชาด้วยดอกไม้ น้ำ ผลไม้ และความเคารพ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยงอย่างกุมาร ไม่ใช่ผี",
  "keeping_en": "Kept by veneration: flowers, water, fruit, respect. Not fed like a kuman, not a ghost; deva-tier keeping."
 },
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  "s:vault-classes",
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  "s:commons-amulets-th"
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   "source": "s:tradition"
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    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-nak",
    "note": "with s:en-wiki-naga for the 2022 designation; the last clause is tradition"
   },
   "origin.era_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:en-wiki-naga"
   },
   "axes.class": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "inference"
   }
  }
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 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
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   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}