Naaken is a single word that means both phaya chang and phaya ngu, i.e. ‘elephant king’ and ‘snake king’, or alternatively phaya naak, i.e. ‘naga king’, and is used to refer to a mythical creature described as a snake with the head of an elephant, and swhich is also known as chang patjay naaken. It represents Vishnuphong, i.e. a rainmaking White Elephant (fig.) that occurs in the Wetsandornchadok, for one. Here it is in the form of a balustrade on the wihaan of Wat Nong Nok Chum (fig.) in Kamphaeng Phet.