Honeygiver Among the Dogs

Remote, superstitious (and resource-rich) village. Night. XCU grass blades being trampled by police boots on a literal witch-hunt. The cliff is blood-stained, the abbess of a Buddhist monastery has gone missing and the village idiot has blamed “the Demoness Chedu”, described as “Beautiful. Scary. Flirtatious.” Oh-oh! Authorised female spirituality has been murdered by unsanctioned, ancient and forbidden female mysticism, much feared and suppressed by the religious patriarchy. Chedu’s young niece runs off to warn her aunt, who gives one last parting advice, woman to little girl: “Stand by what you believe to be true.” 

Fruitlessly Kinley the dashing cop tracks the fugitive, but it is the Dakini (Skydancer/Demoness/Goddess, possibly like the Thai ‘Chi Ploey’—“naked nuns/mystics” who “wear the wind and sky”) who finds and bewitches him. Similar resonance can be found between “honeygiver among the dogs” and the Thai saying “violinist among the buffaloes”, amidst tales of Dakini persecution through the ages. A haunting and pleasurable Bhutan murder mystery that’s beautiful, surprising and, yes, mystical. 

Ticket 160 Baht / Seat

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