Metta & Charm · เมตตามหานิยม
นางพญาหงส์ทอง
Nang Phaya Hong Thong
Golden Swan Queen Waan
Ritual purpose
Metta-maha-niyom, favor, pleasing speech, travel/business-contact charm.
Botanical
Globba schomburgkii Hook.f. (Zingiberaceae); range India to southern Yunnan and Indo-China. BanVanThai notes six visually similar forms traded under the name; some Kanchanaburi villagers also call it ว่านดอกทอง.
Origin / legend
No developed legend; the name comes from flower clusters resembling a swan.
Consecration method (ปลุกเสก)
(1) Carry the rhizome after chanting the short katha 3 times; (2) grind rhizome and flower into powder, mix with lip beeswax and chant the longer metta formula 7 times, or mix with sandalwood oil and anoint the forehead before travel/business.
Katha (คาถา)
มะอะอุ พุทธะสังฆามิ นะชาลีติ
ma-a-u phuttha-sangkhami na-cha-li-ti
Seed syllables plus Buddha/Sangha invocation for metta/favor.
นะโมพุทธายะ นะเมตตาโมกรุณา พุทมิให้ว่า ธาให้หลง ยะให้งงหลงใหล เมตตานะนะมะพะทะ
namo phutthaya na metta mo karuna phut mi hai wa tha hai long ya hai ngong long-lai metta na na ma pha tha
Invokes Namo Buddhaya, metta and compassion, assigning syllables to softening speech and bewildered attraction.
Application
Carry the rhizome when traveling; apply as lip wax; anoint the forehead with sandalwood-oil preparation before business contact; planted as auspicious metta plant.
Taboos / restrictions (ข้อห้าม)
- No explicit taboo found.
Folk-name overlap with ว่านดอกทอง in parts of Kanchanaburi. Facebook search snippets (Thai) frame it as a named "วิชาโบราณ" (old magical system) for metta-maha-niyom/maha-saneh attributed to อาจารย์หม่อง บางระมาด, with an aradhana-style invocation fragment ("หงส์ทองหนึ่งคู่ ตัวนึงอยู่ ตัวนึงไป...พุทโธ") not exposed in full; English seller snippets separately list a related "Phaya Hong Kham" material attributed to Ajarn Subin in Khun Phaen amulets — these are amulet-ingredient mentions, not separate plant consecration.
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