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Poj Ntxoog 'Lady Ntxoog,' a feared unkempt female spirit in Hmong belief. She is the size of a little girl and lives in the depths of the forest, and is often associated with tigers.
Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem One of the two lords of the Otherworld in Hmong belief. Seated on a magnificent and terrifying throne behind a great writing desk, Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem issues licenses for rebirth. He and ...
Ntxwj Nyug One of the two lords of the Otherworld in Hmong belief. He judges the souls of the dead and determines in which form the soul will be reincarnated -- vegetable, animal, or human. He guards ...
Nplooj Lwg The frog who created heaven and earth. It was a place inhabited by humans and spirits where they lived together peacefully. Men, however, claimed that the frog had lied about the size of ...
yeeb ceeb The dark world of the spirits in Hmong belief. It corresponds to the Chinese world of yin. The Otherworld, comprising of yeeb ceeb and yaj ceeb (world of men), is closely modeled on the ...
yaj ceeb In Hmong belief, the bright world of the men and women and of material objects and nature. It corresponds to the Chinese world of yang. Its opposite is the dark world of yeeb ceeb.
Tauropolus Tauropolus was occasionally mentioned as one of the sons of the wine-god Dionysus and his wife Ariadne from the family of Minos in Crete. He was the brother of Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus ...
Aleus Aleus, who was the son of Apheidas and the grandson of Arcas, became the king of the Arcadian city Tegea in the Peloponnesus. He married Neaera, the daughter of Pereus, and he had by her ...
Latramys According to some myths Latramys was the son of the wine-god Dionysus and his wife Ariadne, the brother of Thoas, Oenopion, Staphylus, Euanthes, and Tauropolos. He belonged to the leaders ...
Euanthes According to certain myths, Euanthes was one of the sons of Ariadne and Dionysus, and the grandson of King Minos from Crete. He was the brother of Oenopion, Thoas, Staphylus, Tauropolus and ...
Otherworld The Otherworld in Hmong belief is harsh, mountainous landscape. It can be entered through holes or underground caves. Where the natural world and the Otherworld meet there is a large body ...
dab neeb The host of shamanic spirits that accompany and protect a Hmong shaman on his journey to the Otherworld. Among the dab neeb are various natural and supernatural forces, such as ...
Sis Yis The first shaman in Hmong tradition. In the beginning, the Lord of Death, Ntxwj Nyug, killed humans faster than they could reproduce. When the beneficent Saub saw that there were only a few ...
Zaj Laug The Dragon King, the oldest of the dragons who live in the Otherworld. He controls the waters which surround the flat earth (which rests on the shoulders of four giants) as well as the ...
kev mob kev tuag The 'way of death,' a complex Hmong funeral rite to ensure that the soul of the deceased has a safe passage to the Otherworld and that it reincarnates as a member of the same clan. The ...
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