{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "mystic-square",
 "type": "motif",
 "names": {
  "name": "The lettered square"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "does": "protect"
 },
 "mark": {
  "does": "A grid of letters or numerals, read as a formula rather than as a picture.",
  "where": [
   "back",
   "chest",
   "arms",
   "legs"
  ],
  "earned": false
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A grid of letters or numerals, read as a formula rather than as a picture.",
  "story": "The Lanna volume notes which numerals go in: **Burmese numerals**, which the Lanna call *hora* numerals and hold to be the right ones for saiyasat rites, while the Lanna numerals — *lek nai tham* — are kept for inscribing the dhamma. Two number systems, two jobs, on one page and on one body.\n\n*Attested —* the same book says early Lanna took these beliefs from Pagan and then developed its own forms."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ตารางตัวอักษรหรือตัวเลข อ่านเป็นสูตร ไม่ใช่เป็นภาพ หนังสือล้านนาระบุว่าเลขในตารางยันต์ใช้เลขพม่า ที่ล้านนาเรียกว่าเลขโหรา ส่วนเลขในธรรมใช้กับการจารพระธรรม"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "sak-yant",
   "as": "The tradition it belongs to.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:ms6968"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:ms6968"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}