Introducing guest writer Connor Plessl. Based in Chiang Mai in north Thailand, one day he set out to climb a holy mountain, and discovered a world of mystical connections
Wonderful! So many layers of mythology here, the infant snatched by a bird, adopted on a high mountain, floating down a river on a raft. The ancient queen is honoured in bronze by a statue in a busy street and tribute to the javelin-throwing hermit-founder found in the back of a cave hidden by a bunch of banana trees in an out-of-the-way corner of a temple. Very evocative.
Wonderful! So many layers of mythology here, the infant snatched by a bird, adopted on a high mountain, floating down a river on a raft. The ancient queen is honoured in bronze by a statue in a busy street and tribute to the javelin-throwing hermit-founder found in the back of a cave hidden by a bunch of banana trees in an out-of-the-way corner of a temple. Very evocative.