Back in time, the story of a cursed Lord. At The Khong Long lake in Bueng Khong Long District, Bueng Kan province, Thailand; There was all land before the lake was found (refer to the story). It is the location of a city named Rattapa Nakhon, the city ruled by a Lord named Ue-Lue. The Lord’s wife called Gaewganlaya and his daughter named Kiewkam which later married the Sampanta Lord. Kiewkam and Sampanta had a son named Fahoong (or Fahung)
Fahoong was an intelligent and a handsome man. One day he accidently met a beautiful lady in middle of nowhere, her name was Nakkarintrani. Because of her beauty, it wasn’t difficult for him to fall in love with her. It was love at first sight, their feeling for each other was like they had known each other for ages. They made time to meet each other often, until he can’t wait no more. He asked her to marry him and move to stay with him in the palace.
Nakkarintrani was very happy to know that Fahoong loved her and wanted to marry her, but she was afraid if Fahong won’t loved her after he knew she isn’t a human. Nakkarintrani is a serpent or naka. She transformed herself into a women look because she saw him at first and wanted him to be impressed.
Nakkarintrani went back to the Nakarat Kingdom and told her father about marrying Fahoong who was a human. The Naka’s Lord was worried about his daughter because there was not even one time that Naka will have successful relationship with human. Anyway, the Lord couldn’t stop his daughter from her love power.
The wedding was arranged as a huge ceremony for 7 days in both Rattapa Nakhon and the Nakarat Kingdom. To approach the greatness and relationship between the two kingdoms, The Naka’s Lord gave a heraldry crown jewel to the Lord Ue-Lue and asked the Lord Ue-Lue and people in Rattapa Nakhon to take care of Nakkarintrani while no one in Rattapa Nakhon knew that Nakkarintrani is a daughter of the King of naka.
3 years later, Fahoong and Nakkarintrani still had no baby because the nature of serpent and human cannot breed together, that caused of the suffering for both of them. Nakkarintrani got very sick, so she transformed back to be snake. A servant came in and saw Nakkarintrani becoming a snake, she screamed with the fear and ran away.
The story of Nakkarintrani becoming a snake went viral, people in Rattapa Nakhon and the Lord Ue-Lue were very upset about Nakkarintrani was a Naka. She tried to transform herself back to a human look but it couldn’t help to calm the situation. People including the Lord Ue-Lue deprecated Nakkarintrani.
Nakkarintrani was evicted mindlessly. The Lord Ue-Lue sent a letter to the Naka’s Lord to come and take his daughter back. Fahoong felt really depressed that he couldn’t help his lover.
The Naka’s Lord who loved his daughter for his life, got very angry at people in Rattapa Nakhon for treating his daughter in that way. He came to pick his daughter up and asked for the heraldry crown jewel back. The Lord Ue-Lue couldn’t give it back because he already used it for making something else. That even multiplied the anger for the King of Naka, he shouted out loud that he will come back with his warriors to destroy Rattapa Nakhon become disappeared.
At the same night, the King of Naka went back to Rattapa Nakhon with his warriors, they destroyed Rattapa Nakhon and killed Rattapa Nakhon people. No one could fight the Naka power, Rattapa Nakhon was drown underwater becoming the Khong Long lake. The Lord Ue-Lue was cursed to become a Naka and couldn’t go out of Khong Long land, until The Khong Long will again become a big city.
Nakkarintrani didn’t know that her father would destroy the city, she went there after the war to find her lover, Fahoong. She was looking for him from Khong Long lake to Song Khram river but couldn’t find him. She went home with sadness.
By the way, the nakas didn’t destroy all the places in Rattapa Nakhon, there were 3 temples that weren’t destroyed; Wat Gaew Fah (Wat Don Gaew), Wat Pho Thi Sat (Wat Don Pho), and Wat Dan Sawan (Wat Don Sawan).
There is a riverbed called “Huay Nam Mao” that connects Khong Long lake to Song Khram river. Nam Mao refers to alcohol drinks that compares to the love that Nakkarintrani had for Fahoong which made her became blind or drunk.
The Giant Naka rocks are located in Phu Langka National Park, Bueng Kan, Thailand.
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