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Officiants of the “Four Palaces” governed by these deities invoke their linh by dressing up as them in the hầu bóng ritual. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this sort of deity worshiped as an “unborn ancient” in salvationist faiths like Xiāntiāndáo (“shee-en-tee-en-DOW”). One of them supposedly taught the Dào Dé Jīng to Lǎozǐ and helped the Jade Emperor create a barrier central to the Qīxì (“chee-shee”) Festival.
ANSWER: mother goddesses [accept Queen Mother of the West, Xī Wángmŭ, Unborn Ancient Mother, Infinite Mother, Seiōbo, Dŏumu Yuánjūn, Seowangmo, Wúshēng Lǎomǔ, or Thánh Mẫu; accept Ðạo Mẫu or Tứ Phủ; accept Holy Courtiers or Thánh Chầu; accept Holy Mistresses or Thánh Cô; prompt on goddesses or queens; reject “immortals”]
[10e] Ðạo Mẫu is a strain of mother goddess worship in the folk religion of this country, whose other faiths include Coconut Religion and Cao Ðài.
ANSWER: Vietnam [or Socialist Republic of Việtnam or Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam]
[10h] Vietnam’s focal concept of linh is often translated as this Latin-derived term for the direct, non-rational experience of the divine or ineffable. Rudolf Otto coined this term as a morally neutral complement to “the holy.”
ANSWER: numinous [accept numen]
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