Thagyamin

Burmese Buddhist heaven-king appointed head of the thirty-seven selected nats. A wooden image from the Pagan period occupies an eastern chamber of the nat shrine at Shwezigon.

Names and tradition associations

• Thagyamin Burmese · same recordNorthern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• Sakka Buddhist · resolvedNorthern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• Indra Hindu · resolvedNorthern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)

Variant accounts

• source review correctionUse the attested personal designation, retaining the English office as an alias.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• source review correctionReplace editorial ingestion commentary with a sourced description.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• source review correctionQualify the regional adaptation and remove unsupported claims about weather powers.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• source review correctionQualify the regional adaptation and remove unsupported claims about weather powers.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)

Domains

• heaven celestial realm
• kingship over spirits

Powers

• Descends each new year to record human deeds in golden and dog-skin books

Epithets

• သိကြားမင်း burmese · Thagya Min'King Sakka (Indra)' — head of the nat pantheonBurmese Thirty-Seven Nats tradition; Maha Gita (secondary)

Relations

• buddhist adaptation: ŚakraNIU names the deity Indra–Sakka–Thagyamin in its account of the Burmese nat pantheon. This identification does not transfer another tradition’s genealogy.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)
• buddhist adaptation: IndraNIU names the deity Indra–Sakka–Thagyamin in its account of the Burmese nat pantheon. This identification does not transfer another tradition’s genealogy.Northern Illinois University, The Pagan Period, Shwezigon stupa and nat shrine (secondary)

Sources

• Thagyamin, the Burmese form of Sakka/Indra, is the king set over the official Thirty-Seven Nats by King Anawrahta and the supreme nat.: R. C. Temple, The Thirty-Seven Nats, London, 1906 (secondary); Melford E. Spiro, Burmese Supernaturalism, expanded ed. 1978 (secondary)