Suvannamaccha: Hanuman falls in love with a mermaid

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Hanuman, the celibate, has a mermaid wife in Thailand and Cambodia.

As Hanuman builds the bridge to Lanka, stones vanish daily. Diving down he meets mermaids led by Suvannamaccha, Ravana's daughter. He attacks, then falls in love. She says she was obeying her father; when she learns the bridge's purpose, she changes sides and returns the rocks. Their son is Macchanu. The episode is absent from Valmiki and appears in Thai Ramakien and Cambodian Reamker.

Who: Hanuman, Suvannamaccha, Ravana, Macchanu

Bound to

Macchanu: the fish-tailed son who meets Hanuman causes

Makaradhwaja: Hanuman's son born from sweat mirror

Ramakien: Rama I's Thai epic located-at

Reamker: mortals, a mermaid and a lintel at Phimai same-story-other-version

Places: Thailand, Cambodia, Gulf of Thailand, Angkor

Where this comes from

modern-popular · Garland Magazine
regional-literary · Wikipedia: Reamker

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