Hae nang maew ritual is a ritual of Krog Pra people. In the year of lacking rain the villagers will parade a cat to call the rain for their field. The villagers begin the ritual with finding female cats and put her into the basket or a kind of bamboo basket. Insert a stick of wood to the basket and parade the cat from house to house. In front of the parade there is a man who carries a footed tray and calling to invite the other villagers to join the parade and there are also many numbers of tom-toms. The very important things in the parade are a figure of the clouds, men and women genitals, which are made from the clay in different shapes.
The figures of men and women genitals are place in a crosswise position, like there are copulating. Then the villagers will shout the words of Hae nang maew ritual with cheerful. When the parade reached each house, the owner of the house is going to throw the water to the cat in the basket till it wet and give the members of the parade prizes, which is an alcoholic beverage, food, etc. The parade goes to every houses in the village if it is no rain coming they will do all of this again in the next day or soon.
The reason that they use a female cat because the villagers believe that the male god will send the rain, which is his broth, to the angel of the earth, Who is the female god. She will receive his broth (or the rain) into her womb. After raining the plants will grow very well. The villagers will have enough food to eat. Hae nang maew ritual is in July-August.
This ceremony has died out but it still shows us the unity and the old way to solve the farming problems of the villagers
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