Offering to Mae Thoranee
Mother Earth, personified as Mae Thoranee can be found in many Buddhist stories, most significantly his story of the day of enlightenment. Before beginning the invocation ritual the priest and land owner must buy the land from Mae Thorani and she will open the gates to heaven so that the angels can come in. Her numerological number is 5. She is said to enjoy sweet ruby chestnuts another possible symbolic remnant of the ancient sacrificial cults to mother earth.