Hill tribe village - Ban Huai Sua Tao

• We welcome you as a guest in our village, but as that you respect that it is a village where everybody carries on their daily life. It is not a specially built theme park and as such you should not leave littler or walk into peoples' houses without invitation.
  
  
• The people of Huay Sua Thao are used to visitors and are happy to pose for photos, but please ask first. It would be a good gesture to purchase from their shop in return.
  
  
• The girls who wear the rings, in particular, are often happy to speak to a few visitors to the best of their ability. Please use discretion when it comes to asking personal questions.

• Why women born on Wednesday is;
  Long, long time ago, there was a scary happening. Only women who were born on Wednesday were bit and killed by a tiger. To protect those women from the tiger, people put neck ornaments on their neck.
  
  This is one theory and it looks like there are some other theories.
  I don't know if this is true or not but women born not only on Wednesday also wear neck ornaments for fashion.

• Migration and religion
  The Kayan people have practiced their traditional Kan Khwan belief since they emigrated from Mongolia during the Bronze Age and started their wanderings towards the Salween River area in Karenni State (in present day Burma).
  They lived there until they became displaced people in the 1990s as a result of the actions of the Burmese military junta.
  Although some Kayan people have converted to Christianity many still follow their traditional Kan Khwan beliefs and at festive times of the year everyone participates in the ancient ceremonies.

• Mythological story
  The world was created by the eternal creator god Phu Kabukathin, assisted by two creator deities: Pikahao and Kabukaban and their four Messengers: Mann created heaven, Ti created the earth, La Taon created trees and plants and La Nan created man and animals.
  The components of the universe are linked together by a web; thus the earth is braced to the stars and the moon by a spider's web. At creation earth still lacked density and the land and the water were fluid so the God Phu Kabukathin planted a small post in the ground. As the post grew the earth also grew into seven outer and inner layers and it became firm. The post was named: "The means of formation of earth" - the Kan Htein Bo in Kayan.

• The Kan Htein Bo Poles
  For the stability of the world and mankind everyone should pay homage to the Kan Htein Bo bestowed by God.
  God also gave the people seven commandments to guide their lives. On their wanderings the Kayan often tried to plant Kan Khwan poles, but they never remained firm until they reached Demawso where they settled.
  The pole is comprised of The Sun at the peak - venerated as the only self-illuminating planet in creation.
  Next to it is the Moon, the Sun's mate and man's means of telling the time.
  Then comes the Sanctuary - where the eternal deities reside and the streamer - a ladder connecting heaven and earth, at the top of which is a spider's web which humans must pass through to reach heaven.
  Next to the Kan Htein Bo is a podium, the Kantan, where offerings are placed to the Gods and to the guardians of the woods, lands, mountains and waters.