During our voyage to the south of Thailand, I remembered one story Andrei Makarevich. The leader of the Time Machine is an unusual theory that Baba Yaga, a folk heroine from Russian fairy tales, in fact not a lady of old years and non-zeys, and even even a man. According to Andrei Vadimovich, it was a yoga from India. A dark creature, very skinny, with an absolutely non-Slavic profile. If you move to your "Baba" with an emphasis from the first syllable to the second, we get "Baba", which means "Holy" on Hindi. This name was given in India enlightened.
Sometimes they look very exotic ...
And now - about the stue separately. Where did she get from Baba Yaga? "Remember, however, that the word" STUP "has another value - this is a cult Buddhist structure, a stone dome, in the foundation of which the tiny part of the Buddha body is laid - say, hair or nail. It serves to ascension of prayers and meditation, "Makarevich continues his thought. "I don't know how you, and I easily imagine a Babu Yoga, settled away from the spiritually a little Russian life that built a stulet and levishing over it."
It turns out that Makarevich, that there was once in the Russian outback of Baba Yoga straight from India. However, after we allocated all our family, the entire South of Thailand was for a couple of weeks, I had an addition to the Makarevich theory. Well, and to be more accurate, then my own theory.
... and not everyone will decide to pass the evening here.
I started to dance from the stove. More precisely, from the place where it should be from home. Houses in Thailand, if anyone suddenly saw, mostly built on piles: it's like protection in the rainy season, when everything is poured here. Looking at the whole villages of such houses immediately remembered the "hut on the couch legs" - and indeed, very similar.
Now about the name. And here everything converges. Baba is the popular male family name of Chinese immigrants, which in the XIII-XV centuries of the skies massively spread through various countries of Southeast Asia - in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei. And including in Thailand (only on Phuket - about 30 percent of ethnic Chinese). So, if the boys called Baba, then girls are a nurse. Therefore, the Chinese families are often called "Baba-Nyanya". And in Thailand - due to the difficulties of pronunciation, is even easier - "Baba Yaya". Phuket even has an association with such a name.
Food preparation stupas were used in Southeast Asia from ancient times.
Yes, and about the fix. If Andrei Vadimovich remembered the spiritual, then I am closer to the kitchen. The fact is that in Thailand it is at stupas that most dishes make. In each Thai family, there are no compulsory stups of two types: granite and clay. They grind peanuts for noodles Pad SI IO, chili pepper (for all dishes), and also make famous curry pasta, mixing about forty different ingredients. Sometimes stups can be truly giant sizes. Why not drive after a dear dinner?
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.