Announcing our first-ever R&T Forum CONTEST

[daverobertson]

Announcing our first ever R&T Forum contest!   

It's very simple...

Rules:

* Identify the Cambodian god on this bead
* Post your answer here
* Provide proof that your answer is right. 
* The first, correctest answer wins

Deadline:  A month from today (April 30, 2009).

Prize: A goodie bag of Rings & Things products!

Get your trivia caps on! 

--Dave

[beadqueen_TX]

I think the Cambodian God depicted is Yama, the god and judge of the dead.  The reason I think it's Yama is that it seems to fit this description I found on the IDS Cambodia website.   "His features are full of passion, with thick lips, energetic chin, full cheeks, aquiline nose and clear brow... his mouth, slightly open, showing the teeth. this peculiarity of the teeth being shown in a smile is absolutely and strangely unique in Cambodian art."  There is a cool story related to this god, He is the ""inspector of faults and qualities" perhaps once held court beneath a wooden edifice."

http://www.idscambodia.com/about_cambodia/temples/terrace_leperking.php

[daverobertson]

Thanks so much for re-posting your answer!!  I've still got to check it out...no idea beforehand about who the god is!  http://www.rings-things.com/blog