Nang Khosop
Nang Khosop is the rice goddess in Laos, and part of the local rural culture. According to a manuscript, she was the maiden who was the soul of the rice, and nourished humans for many centuries. She was later slaughtered and cut into pieces, becoming the different varieties of rice.
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“Known as Nang Khosop in Laos, the rice goddess is also part of the local rural culture. There are different versions of the Laotian origin myth regarding rice. According to a manuscript in Wat Si Saket, after a thousand-year famine one day a young man caught a golden fish. The king of the fishes heard the cry of agony and went to ask the man to free the golden fish in exchange for a treasure. The treasure was Nang Khosop, the maiden who was the soul of the rice.”
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