Phi Fa

Phi Fa (Thai: ผีฟ้า, Lao: ຜີຟ້າ) is a ghost or spirit of the local folklore of Northeast Thailand (Isan) and Laos. It is also known as Nang Fa (นางฟ้า) or Phi Thaen (ผีแถน) and is often represented as a woman having a malevolent side related to the cannibalistic pop phi. Phi Fa is believed to bring about disease and natural disasters.

Phi Fa ritual

The Phi Fa Ritual is a practice preferably celebrated for a person that recovers after convalescence from a serious disease. The shaman is the medium, that is able to contact Phi Fa and invite her to take part in the ceremony. The shaman selects the suitable date and location for the ceremony, instructs the people during the preparation of the ritual, controls the correct decoration of the sacrificial altar and conducts the full ceremony.

Music, Chanting and Dancing are indispensable elements of the Phi Fa Ritual. The khaen, a bamboo mouth organ, is the central music instrument of the ritual. It is creating a sacred atmosphere when used to accompany ritual prayers and devotions and it is engaging the participants of the ritual while leading the rhythmic dancing around the sacrificial altar. Especially for the latter dedication the Khaen is accompanied by the phing (a guitar-like stringed instrument), by a hand drum and by chings (small bells, cymbals). The genre of chanting is very similar to mor lam, the traditional music of Lao and Northeast-Thailand.

Phi

Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase or ; Ancient Greek: ϕεῖ, pheî, [pʰé͜e]; modern Greek: φι, fi, [fi]; English: /faɪ/) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In Ancient Greek, it represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive ([pʰ]), which was the origin of its usual romanization as "ph". In modern Greek, it represents a voiceless labiodental fricative ([f]) and is correspondingly romanized as "f". Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa and initially represented the sound /kʷʰ/ before shifting to Classical Greek [pʰ]. In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 (φʹ) or 500 000 (͵φ). The Cyrillic letter Ef (Ф, ф) descends from phi.

Phi is also used as a symbol for the golden ratio and on other occasions in math and science. This use is separately encoded as the Unicode glyph ϕ. The modern Greek pronunciation of the letter is sometimes encountered in English (as /fiː/) when the letter is being used in this sense.

Use as a symbol

The lower-case letter φ (or often its variant, ϕ) is often used to represent the following:

Phi (KinKi Kids album)

Phi (stylized as Φ) is the tenth studio album of the Japanese duo KinKi Kids. It is the first album by KinKi Kids to have a Greek-lettered title, rather than the traditional Latin-lettered album title. The album was certified platinum by the RIAJ for 250,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan.

Track list

Charts

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Phi (Truckfighters album)

Phi is the second studio album by Swedish rock band Truckfighters, released 5 October 2007 on Fuzzorama Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by Truckfighters.

Personnel

Truckfighters

Additional musicians

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