The trivet-table of a foot was lame

The two most important holidays are the Burmese New Year or Water Festival (Thingyan) celebrated in April and the Festival of Lights (Thadingyut) celebrated in October.

Mortals, rejoice! the very Angels quit Their mansions unsusceptible of change, Amid your pleasant bowers to sit, And through your sweet vicissitudes to range!

Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.