Talk:Rocket Festival

message: Open for discussion.Lee 16:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I agree with whomever it was who put the Lao nomenclature first, but don't want an edit war. Pawyilee (talk) 05:51, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thai vs. Lao festival 

message: Wikipedia conventions regarding introductions ask that they, where possible, begin with the title of the article; hence A Rocket Festival.... As long as the English is then followed by Lao and Thai names and spellings, I don't think the order in which these are entered really matters. What does matter is that the article then focuses on Yasothon's justly famous Rocket Festival, with only the barest mention of practices in Laos, and none at all of those in the Shan states of Burma, or in the Lao-Tai-speaking regions of China. Also, the Phu Tai in Kalasin and Mukdahan Provinces have their own version of Bangfy called Bangfy Darai (Danger Bangfy) made of a steel pipe inside a round frame, that takes off horizontally, spinning as it goes. Neighboring provinces of Roi Et and Yasothon also have Bangfy Darai practitioners (for commercial reasons, from what I've seen), but I don't know of anything published on any of these alternatives. And that is more important than whether the Lao or Thai spelling has priority in the intro. Pawyilee (talk) 08:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: The nagas did go to war "in spite," but the rivers were "in spate": that is, well above flood stage. The present article doesn't go into why the nagas went to war "in spite" because the relevant character, Phangkhi as a white squirrel (or albino - Lao and Thai differ in this regard) is not normally seen in parades. FYI, he changed into a squirrel after the tournament was called off in order to spy on Nang Ai in her quarters. He wore a golden bell about his neck so that the sound would attract her to the window, which it did, but she wanted both bell and squirrel, alive or dead. She sends a royal hunter after it, and, in a scene that recalls how she came to be fed up with Phangkhi in the last life, the squirrel is killed and magically transformed into enough meat to fill 2000 cartloads, enough to for everyone in Isan to be fed up. Everybody but Phadaeng, and some widows in a village on a hill in the middle of the Kumphawapi District marsh, feast on the tainted meat. Phangkhi's father, Grand King of the Nagas, then vows that everyone who ate of the flesh of his son shall die. That's why everyone drowns, but for Phadaeng and the widows on the hill. The widows refused the meat because they reasoned, while it is a wife's duty to prepare meat brought home from the hunt by her husband, they had no husbands and so weren't obliged to cook it. Phadaeng refrained from eating the meat cooked by Nang Air because he didn't like the smell of it (and suspected it was the remains of his rival, Phangkhi.) But since this isn't worked into the parades, I can't see working it into the article. Pawyilee (talk) 17:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nagas "In spite" vs. rivers "in spate" 

message: Rocket firing festival starts in E-sarn Tai with tough warning from authorities
—Pawyilee (talk) 13:05, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
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