List of Official Nats
King Anawrahta of Bagan (1044–1077) designated an official pantheon of 37 Nats, after he had failed to enforce a ban on nat worship. His stratagem of incorporation by bringing the nats to his Shwezigon Pagoda in positions of worshipping the Buddha, and by enlisting Thagya Min at the head of the pantheon above the Mahagiri nats, eventually succeeded. Seven out of the 37 Nats appear to be directly associated with the life and times of Anawrahta. The official pantheon is made up predominantly of those from the royal houses of Burmese history, but also contains nats of Thai (Yun Bayin) and Shan (Maung Po Tu) descent; illustrations of them show them in Burmese royal dress. Listed in proper order, they are:
- Thagyamin (သိကြားမင်း)
- Min Mahagiri (မင်းမဟာဂီရိ)
- Hnamadawgyi (နှမတော်ကြီး)
- Shwe Nabay (ရွှေနံဘေး)
- Thonbanhla (သုံးပန်လှ)
- Taungoo Mingaung (တောင်ငူမင်းခေါင်)
- Mintara (မင်းတရား)
- Thandawgan (သံတော်ခံ)
- Shwe Nawrahta (ရွှေနော်ရထာ)
- Aungzwamagyi (အောင်စွာမကြီး)
- Ngazi Shin (ငါးစီးရှင်)
- Aung Pinle Hsinbyushin (အောင်ပင်လယ်ဆင်ဖြူရှင်)
- Taungmagyi (တောင်မကြီး)
- Maungminshin (မောင်မင်းရှင်)
- Shindaw (ရှင်တော်)
- Nyaunggyin (ညောင်ချင်း)
- Tabinshwehti (တပင်ရွှေထီး)
- Minye Aungdin (မင်းရဲအောင်တင်)
- Shwe Sitthin (ရွှေစစ်သင်)
- Medaw Shwezaga (မယ်တော်ရွှေစကား)
- Maung Po Tu (မောင်ဘိုးတူ)
- Yun Bayin (ယွန်းဘုရင်)
- Maung Minbyu (မောင်မင်းဖြူ)
- Mandalay Bodaw (မန္တလေးဘိုးတော်)
- Shwe Hpyin Naungdaw (ရွှေဖျင်း နောင်တော်)
- Shwe Hpyin Nyidaw (ရွှေဖျင်း ညီတော်)
- Mintha Maungshin (မင်းသား မောင်ရှင်)
- Htibyuhsaung (ထီးဖြူဆောင်း)
- Htibyuhsaung Medaw (ထီးဖြူဆောင်း မယ်တော်)
- Pareinma Shin Mingaung (ပရိမ္မရှင် မင်းခေါင်)
- Min Sithu (မင်းစည်သူ)
- Min Kyawzwa (မင်းကျော်စွာ)
- Myaukhpet Shinma (မြောက်ဘက်ရှင်မ)
- Anauk Mibaya (အနောက် မိဘုရား)
- Shingon (ရှင်ကုန်း)
- Shingwa (ရှင်ကွ)
- Shin Nemi (ရှင်နဲမိ)
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