Lanna Manuscript Wiki — wichaa.net

A free, open archive of Northern Thai (Lanna) manuscripts and the living wichaa (astrology, ritual, medicine, and magic) tradition around them — nearly 7,000 manuscripts, digitised primary textbooks, a curated knowledge graph, and the living amulet market, on one continuous timeline. Every fact is recomputed from the catalogue, not authored from priors.

Live site → https://wichaa.net Machine entry point → https://wichaa.net/llms.txt (agents: read the JSON/RDF API, don't scrape the HTML)

This repository hosts the static build (docs/, served via GitHub Pages). The site is generated from a local catalogue by a separate build pipeline — edit the generator, never docs/ directly.

License

Metadata, compilation, and digitised contributed texts: CC-BY 4.0 — attribute "Lanna Manuscript Wiki". High-resolution source images remain with their holding libraries.

Support — free forever, funded by merit (tam boon)

The archive is free, with no ads and no paywall. The transcription and translation is done by machines, and that machine-time costs a little — about $0.06 per page, a few dollars for a whole manual. If it's useful to you and you're moved to, you can make merit: it buys the bots time to read one more text so everyone can have it.

• ☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/defiantchiangmai (message TRANSLATE <manuscript#> to sponsor a specific volume)
• 📖 How support works: https://wichaa.net/support — sponsored jobs run in public on the activity feed
• Specific manuscripts can be commissioned; the result still enters the free archive.

Contact: 530kings@proton.me