`betel leaves came from the religious commandment, a betel leaf came from the house' (dulan is a brick house, its imitative is dulan paki in literal sense it is 'house of rich people/ big house') from the mother earth.'
`it is of two types, the whole ones and the pieces ones, same thing with betel leaf, the whole ones was used in any part of religion rites/ceremonies.'
`it was used from life till death, without betel leaf a ceremony cannot be performed, it was used in sacrifices, in marriage and even when someone died/ in the bereaved family.'
`even during/ in the bereaved houses everyone eats betel leaf, it acts as an announcement, after death there is a saying that 'people eats kwai in heaven'.'
`before it was used only in a religion, the second thing is that the leaf was used as a mark of respect, now i cannot give any wealth but one piece of a betel leaf is two, three times valuable and that is one part a leaf played.'
`the betel leaf was brought to this earth from the lameh latang's cave, (khon lymboit lymbiang literally means a poor person), as a poor person it came to this earth.'
`that the whole and the pieces shares, it was used mostly in a religion, in a religion, a layer of pathi which equals to five leaves goes with one betel nut.'
`there was a different and a long story about how a thorn, ??, a rubber, a rock, a banana got their share (as the guardians of the barrier of earth and heaven).'
`and how u-khon lymboit (a poor person) got his name as u-khon wa khroo (a great son), it was a very long story, how rice got its name as "syiem sakhoo" (rice king), these are different parts