Phu Day, in Van Cat village, Nam Dinh Province, is the historic center of Dao Mau, the Vietnamese Mother Goddess religion. Its two temples were built within a few years of each other in the seventeenth century: Phu Van, traditionally considered the first, in 1642, and Tien Huong between 1643 and 1649, which became the main center of the cult of Lieu Hanh, Dao Mau's best known goddess. Both are still active temples of worship, carved with the elaborate wooden sculpture typical of Lieu Hanh shrines, and together they are the site named in Vietnam's Phu Day Festival, held annually in her honour.
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Type of SiteSourced to the subject's own accountTemple or temple complex 1 Type of Site DetailPhu Day is named among the principal sites of hau dong, the spirit possession ritual through which mediums channel the Mother Goddesses and their retinue of attendant spirits; UNESCO inscribed the wider practice, Practices Related to the Viet Beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms, on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. 2 Status
Status TodaySourced to the subject's own accountLiving tradition, practised today 1 Origins
RegionSourced to the subject's own accountVan Cat village, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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