'Golden tectona siblings') are traditional nats of Shan ethnicity commonly venerated in the vicinity of some villages near Mandalay and Sagaing.
The nat festival in honour of the spirits of Shwe Kyunbin brother and sister is alive with the teeming crowd from upcountry annually.
[1][2] According to oral tradition, the Shwe Kyunbin brother and sister were the grandchildren of the Saopha of Momeik, and became nats when they were pressed under the block of Tectona tree while they were playing near the Shweli River.
It came to Mingun's chief abbot in a dream that the tree was linked to the spirits of the two children, and a nat shrine was set up there in their honour.
[1][5] Kyunbin brother and sister possessed 12 alluvial lands, along the Mandalay and Sagaing banks of Ayeyarwady River, to venerate them.