Brahma statue set to be re-installed
After two months of delicate re-assembly work, the statue of Brahma, which had been hammered to pieces by a mentally deranged man two months ago, is now ready for a grand enshrining ceremony to be televised live from the Rajprasong Intersection on Sunday.
The statue, framed up from brass wire and plastered with gypsum cement while containing some fragments of the destroyed figure, will pass through several sacred steps before being placed back on its base at the Erawan shrine. At the auspicious time of 7.29am on Sunday, the statue will depart from a Fine Arts Department workshop in Nakhon Pathom along Pinklao-Nakhon Chaisri Road. It will undergo a blessing ceremony at the City Pillar Shrine near Sanam Luang, then a holy water rinsing rite in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. The statue will next be ushered into the Brahmin Temple on Kalayana Maitree Road, where a Brahmin ceremony will be performed, before heading to the Rajprasong Intersection through the Samran Rat and Maen Sri intersections and then Kasat Suek Bridge. Sections of Ploenchit and Rajdamri roads near the shrine will be closed to vehicular traffic from 10.30am to noon. The installation ceremony at the Erawan shrine will commence exactly at 11am. The participants will walk three times around the shrine by 11.39am, and the entire proceedings, presided over by caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will be completed at 11.59am.
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