The Penang Snake Temple

[dirtydog]

I suppose the history of the place should be told first.

Some monk in the early 1800s travelled from China to Penang, he had some statue with him called, "Chor Soo Kong".

The monk told the gullible that if they prayed to it it would cure their ills, some British guy called David Brown fell for his banter and believed this diety cured him, he then donated the land to the monk to build his temple on, 1873 they started building the place, now remember this was all basically jungle then back in those days so had millions of poxy snakes in the area.

Legend has it that after the temple was built, snakes from the surrounding jungle mysteriously appeared in the building. Sensing this phenomenon as a good omen, the monk immediately gave shelter to the snakes and allowed them to take up residence in the sacred halls. They were even allowed to breed.

Well everybody I know who gets a snake in their house usually batters the things to death.

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I was quite suprised by this dog living at the temple, would have thought the snakes would have got him by now as he looks a few years old, but alas these days the snakes are defanged.






If I remember rightly you burn one of these big beasty joss sticks in remberance of the dead.




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