{"type": "entity", "value": "phrommachat", "key": "entity:phrommachat", "label": "Phrommachat (12-year almanac)", "noun": "subject", "browseCol": "", "note": "", "priority": false, "profile": {"count": 0, "priority": 0, "provinces": [], "temples": [], "scripts": [], "languages": [], "materials": [], "date": {"min": null, "max": null, "dated": 0}, "samples": []}, "lede": "", "findings": [], "authored": {"exists": true, "status": "published", "title": "Phrommachat (12-year almanac)", "see_also": ["genre:astrology", "genre:divination_omen", "entity:holasat", "entity:katha"], "body_html": "<h2>What this is</h2><p>A <strong>phrommachat</strong> (พรหมชาติ; Lanna <em>phromchat</em>) is the <strong>household fortune-book</strong> — the illustrated almanac that reads a life from its birth-year. Its core is the <strong>twelve-year animal cycle</strong>: your year sets your fate-figure, your auspicious and inauspicious days, your marriage compatibility, the reading of your dreams and moles and the omens that bear on you. Where the <a href=\"/a?s=entity:holasat\">holasat</a> almanac is the astrologer&#x27;s working table, the phrommachat is the <em>popular</em> face of the same science — the book a family actually kept.</p><h2>The catalogue gap</h2><p><strong>The catalogue holds zero witnesses whose title names a phrommachat</strong> — every spelling checked (<em>phrommachat, phromchat, phrom chat</em>) returns nothing across the 6,959 manuscripts.</p><p><em>Inference —</em> like <a href=\"/a?s=entity:lersi\">lersi</a>, this is a <em>shape</em> of absence, not a sign of unimportance. The phrommachat is one of the most reproduced divination texts in the Thai world; its total absence here says the two academic sources digitised so far simply did not hold one under that name, <strong>not</strong> that Lanna lacked the genre. It sits near the top of the want-list: maximum thematic weight, zero availability.</p><h2>Beyond the catalogue — the illustrated fate-book</h2><p><em>Tradition —</em> the following is background from the wider Thai tradition, <strong>not</strong> from these manuscripts; treat specifics as orienting, not authoritative.</p><ul><li><strong>A picture-book of fate.</strong> The classic phrommachat is heavily <strong>illustrated</strong> — the twelve zodiac animals, paired male/female fate-figures, tables of lucky directions and days. It is one of the genres where <em>the image is the text</em>: a bare title line captures almost nothing of what the page carries.</li><li><strong>Syncretic roots.</strong> The name reads as <em>Brahma-jāti</em> (&quot;Brahmā&#x27;s kinds/births&quot;): the tradition folds Brahmanical astrology into a Buddhist frame, exactly the divination-becomes-practice seam this archive tracks under <a href=\"/a?s=genre:astrology\">astrology</a> and <a href=\"/a?s=genre:magic_ritual\">magic &amp; ritual</a>.</li><li><strong>The popular register.</strong> Where a horoscope (<a href=\"/a?s=entity:holasat\">holasat</a>) needs a specialist, the phrommachat is meant to be <em>consulted at home</em> — compatibility before a marriage, a day chosen for a journey, a dream read the morning after. It is divination as everyday domestic technology.</li></ul><h2>Notes</h2><ul><li><strong>A prime image-store target.</strong> Because a phrommachat <em>is</em> its illustrations, any witness that surfaces should be captured as <strong>imagery first</strong> — this is precisely the material Phase-2 page-scanning exists to preserve.</li><li><strong>Where to find it.</strong> <em>Tradition/Inference —</em> likely reachable through vernacular and commercial sources (fortune-telling reprints, market almanacs) and other digitised collections rather than the two academic libraries crawled so far. A directed search for <em>phromchat</em> in Lanna holdings is the next move. <em>(Not yet verified against specific holdings.)</em></li><li><strong>Read this as a scaffold.</strong> Its only hard catalogue fact is <em>n = 0</em>; everything else is clearly-marked tradition or inference, to be pruned toward the sources as real witnesses arrive.</li></ul>"}, "dbPresent": true, "connections": [{"rel": "paired with", "key": "entity:holasat", "label": "Horā almanac (Holasat)", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "in"}, {"rel": "part of", "key": "genre:astrology", "label": "Astrology · โหราศาสตร์", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "out"}, {"rel": "related to", "key": "genre:divination_omen", "label": "Divination & Omens · การทำนาย", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "out"}, {"rel": "related to", "key": "entity:katha", "label": "Katha (Pali spell-formulae)", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "out"}], "image": null}