Thagyamin

Thagyamin is often portrayed as holding a conch shell in one hand, and a yak-tail fly-whisk in the other, and seated or standing atop a three-headed white elephant (similar to the Thai Erawan).[5] He is described as the ruler of the deva plane of existence, called Trāyastriṃśa (တာဝတိံသာ).

He was designated the preeminent of the official pantheon of 37 atet nat (အထက်နတ်) by King Anawrahta in the 11th century, in an effort to streamline animist practices among the populace and merge these practices with Theravada Buddhism. He is the only nat in the official pantheon not to have undergone a sudden and violent death, called a "green" or "raw" death (စိမ်းသေ).

Every year at the first day of Thingyan (the Burmese new year), Thagyamin visits the earth while being invisible. There, he observes every person: he records the names of good people in a golden book, and writes the names of evildoers in a book made of dog-skin leather. On the third day of Thingyan, he returns to heaven.

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  A portrayal of the King of Nats, Thagyamin
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  Thagyamin at the Shwedagon Pagoda

Counterparts of Thagyamin in other Asian cultures

• Amenominakanushi, the Japanese counterpart
• Haneullim, the Korean counterpart of Yuanshi Tianzun
• Indra, the Hindu counterpart
• Jade Emperor, the Chinese counterpart
• Śakra, the Buddhist counterpart
• Tengri, the Mongolian counterpart
• Yuanshi Tianzun, the Taoist counterpart