Lim Ko Niao

She was said to be the sister of Lim Toh Khiam, and who according to legend committed suicide after she failed to persuade her brother to return home.

She then began to be worshipped as a goddess by the ethnic Chinese communities in southern Thailand for her sense of filial piety and patriotic feeling for China.

She found Lim Toh Khiam in Patani, where he had married the daughter of the Sultan, converted to Islam and was building a mosque for the Queen.

In mourning, the local Chinese later made of statue of her with wood from the tree she had hung herself, and created a small shrine for her, and worshipped her for her sense of filial piety and patriotism.

[3] Other shrines dedicated to Lim Ko Niao have also been established in the neighbouring Songkhla and Yala provinces, and her worship has spread further to a few towns in Central and Upper South Thailand.

The following day on the 15th, the wooden image of Lim Ko Niao and 17 other statues of various deities worshipped at this temple as well as others from the neighbourhood are carried by the locals in a grand procession.