thai man with thousands of wooden phallus good luck charms , nonthaburi , thailand
The Thai name for a penis amulet is palad khik, which means "honorable surrogate penis." The palad khik amulet is said to have originated in the Siva linga of India and to have been imported to Thailand by Cambodian monks in the 8th century AD. Early styles of palad khik bear inscribed invocations, entreaties, and praises to Siva; later ones combine these with interlineated invocations and praises to Buddha; modern ones bear uniformly Buddhist inscriptions
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Location: nonthaburi ,(near bangkok), thailand
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