"A village celebrates its invisible rulers... Text By Aung Lwin Oo and photos by Olivier Pin-Fat Burma?s biggest nat festival takes place every August in the village of Taung Pyone, original home of two of the 37 original names in the nat pantheon. For five days each year Taung Pyone village becomes a fairground. Taung Pyone, 14 km north of Mandalay, has about 7,000 nat shrines, nearly 2,000 of them elaborate ones dedicated to the village?s famous sons—the brothers Shwe Phyin Gyi and Shwe Phyin Lay. They are said to have been executed by the 11th century Pagan ruler King Anawrahta for failing to help in the construction of a chedi to enshrine Buddha relics. The story is kept alive today by the symbolic absence from the ancient chedi of two bricks which the two brothers were instructed to contribute..."