contact with the Nāga, although the implications of this contact is not thoroughly explained. In attempts to explain these phenomena, scientists and researchers at the Faculty of Science of Chulalongkorn University have attributed these seemingly preternatural phenomena to standing waves in water, and posit that the existence of the Phaya Nāga is similar to belief in Loch Ness Monster in Scotland or Ogopogo in Canada, and further maintain that the serpent-like tracks of the Phaya Nāga are very possibly forged by humans. Malaysia In Malay and Orang Asli traditions, the lake Chini, located in Pahang is home to a Nāga called Sri Gumum. Depending on legend versions, her predecessor Sri Pahang or her son left the lake and later fought a Nāga called Sri Kemboja. Kemboja is the Malay name for Cambodia. Like the Nāga-legends there, there are stories about an ancient empire in lake Chini, although the stories are not linked to the Nāga-legends. Philippines The indigenous Bakunawa, a serpent-like moon-eating creature in Philippine mythology, was syncretized with the Nāga. It is believed to be the cause of eclipses, earthquakes, rains, and wind. The movements of the bakunawa served as a geomantic calendar system for ancient Filipinos and were part of the shamanistic rituals of the babaylan. It is usually depicted with a characteristically looped tail and was variously believed to inhabit either the sea, the sky, or the underworld. However, the bakunawa may have also syncretized with the Hindu deities, Rahu and Ketu, the navagraha of eclipses. Examples Adishesha, on whom Vishnu is in yoga nidra (Ananta shayana) Vasuki, the king of nagas and who coils over Shiva's neck and offered to serve as the rope to pull Mount Mandara in the Samudra Manthana (Churning of the Ocean of Milk) to release the amrita (nectar of the immortality). Kaliya, a snake conquered by Krishna Manasa, the Hindu goddess of Nagas and curer of snake-bite and sister of Vasuki Takshaka, the tribal king of the nagas Ulupi, a companion of Arjuna in the epic Mahabharata Karkotaka, a naga king in Indian mythology who controls weather, that lived in a forest near Nishadha Kingdom and bit Nala at the request of Indra controls weather Mucalinda, a nāga in Buddhism who protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment Padmavati, the Nāgī queen & companion of Dharanendra Apalala, Nāga in Buddhist mythology Shwe Nabay (Naga Medaw), a goddess or