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Feng Po Po (traditional Chinese: 風婆婆; simplified Chinese: 风婆婆; pinyin: Fēng Pópo; Wade–Giles: Fêng 1 P'o 2-p'o), also called Feng Popo or Feng Pho Pho, is the goddess of the wind in Chinese mythology who rules over storms and moisture. [1] She is referred to as "Madame Wind", and is usually depicted as a crone, old and wrinkled.
Meng Po (Chinese: 孟婆; pinyin: Mèng Pó; Wade–Giles: Meng-p'o; lit. 'Old Lady Meng') is the goddess of oblivion in Chinese mythology, who serves Meng Po Soup on the Bridge of oblivion or Naihe Bridge (Chinese: 奈何桥; pinyin: Nàihé qiáo). This soup wipes the memory of the person so they can reincarnate into the next life without the ...
While Hine-nui-te-pō is asleep, Māui undresses himself ready to enter himself into the goddess. The birds who were nearby, fantails, burst into laughter, alerting Hine-nui-te-po. Hine-nui-te-po reacted by crushing him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die. The problematic themes of rape in this legend are ...
Phosop (Thai: โพสพ) or Phaisop (Thai: ไพสพ) is the rice goddess of the Thai people. [1] She is a deity more related to ancient Thai folklore than a goddess of a structured, mainstream religion. [2] She is also known as Mae Khwan Khao (Thai: แม่ขวัญข้าว; [3] "Mother of Rice Prosperity").
Thiên Y A Na (chữ Hán: 天依阿那) is a Vietnamese goddess. She is worshipped in the Vietnamese folk religion and Đạo Mẫu , the mother goddess beliefs. She is also known as Lady Po Nagar , the Cham deity from whom she originated.
Po Nagar is a Cham temple tower founded sometime before 781 and located in the medieval principality of Kauthara, near modern Nha Trang in Vietnam.It is dedicated to Yan Po Nagar, the goddess of the country, who came to be identified with the Hindu goddesses Bhagavati and Hariti, and who in Vietnamese is called Thiên Y Thánh Mẫu.
Rarohenga is the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori oral tradition. [1] The underworld is ruled by Hine-nui-te-pō, the goddess of death and night.
Mazu or Matsu is a sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. She is also known by several other names and titles . Mazu is the deified form of Lin Moniang ( Chinese : 林 默 娘 ; pinyin : Lín Mòniáng ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Lîm Be̍k-niû / Lîm Bia̍k-niû / Lîm Be̍k-niô͘ ), a shamaness from Fujian ...