Size 47mm Case size is 75mm Tall
Price £45 we pay postage on orders over £40
Paya Tao Ruean Turtle Amulet produced in 1937. It has a prayer on metal rolled and set into the reverse. The amulet has been mounted in a white metal decorative protective case with Acrylic Protective Windows.
The Paya Tao Ruean Turtle, is a very popular and sacred image in Thailand, which exists within local legends, and in Thai literature, magical occultism, sacred geometry, and Thai Buddhist Cosmogony.
The Tao Ruean Turtle, is a very special Turtle, for it represents the Lord Buddha in one of his past lifetimes, as he was born as the Tao Ruean Turtle. It is recounted in the ‘Ha Roi Chati’ (500 Lives of Buddha) story. The Buddha was Incarnated as the Tao Ruean turtle, who lived on a desert island on top of a mountain, practicing purity and morality. The Tao Ruean Turtle, is one of a plethora of the Thai Buddhist Pantheon of Deities
