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Mazu (Chinese deity)

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingMazu (Chinese deity)
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Variant(s)Ma Zu (Chinese deity)
Tin Hau (Chinese deity)
媽祖 (Chinese deity)
妈祖 (Chinese deity)
Associated countryChina
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inQi, gen zhu ma zu zou, Zhonghua Minguo 105 nian, 2016: title page (媽祖 = Mazu) page 4 (a Chinese deity)
Work cat.: A Chinese feast day for Tin Hau [VR] 2009?
People's Daily online, April 25, 2000, via WWW Nov. 30, 2000 (April 27 marks the 1040th anniversary of Mazu's birthday, the goddess of the sea; Meizhou Island, home to the Goddess of Mazu)
International Conference on Ma Zu (2007 : Tʻai-chung hsien, Taiwan). 2007 Taizhong Xian Mazu guo ji xue shu yan tao hui lun wen ji, 2007: t.p. (Ma Zu)
Wikipedia, January 12, 2021: English version (Mazu; 妈祖; a Chinese sea goddess; She is the deified form of the purported historical Lin Mo [林默] or Lin Moniang [林默娘], a Fujianese shamaness whose life span is traditionally dated from 960 to 987)
Associated languagechi
Invalid LCCNsh 85079221