China's Dagur Minority - Sino-Platonic Papers

And thrones in clear rivers.She was transformed in a dressing box,And immortalized in a red cloth wrapper,Shew like a red sparrow,Swam among carp,Made frrenh with crucian carps,She was entrenched on Archang Cli$,She walked back and forth on Niesi Cliff.She was involved with seven Mording groups.Disseminating nine ancestral goddesses,Goddess of Duboqian,Was in charge of I0 families,And was the root of 20 clans.Her spirit became a wenguer.7.2d Mording Eat0 (Mording Grandmother)Long ago a man of Mieji Mokon of Mording Hal was conscripted. He served in aneast China army for many years. When he returned home, he brought a Han servantgirl. She later went mad from maltreatment and caused trouble among the sevenmokon of Mording Hal. In a meeting of the seven mkons, it was decided to cast herinto the Nenjiang River near Lesser Mording Village. At this particular moment theman who had brought her there was in Beijing where he died as a result of her evilspirit. Thus people of the seven mkons of Mording Hal began worshipping her asa goddess. Her image was a cloth figure attached to another cloth. A worn image wasnot replaced until a new child was born to the family. Her spirit did not become awenguer. Yadgans made her power felt. According to other accounts, her spirit once.met Holier Barken in Beijing. They agreed not to be worshipped by the same familyat the same time. Where Mording Goddess of Grandparents was worshipped, Holierwas not worshipped, and vice versa. Offerings for the goddess were a small pig, aroe deer, and buckwheat gruel.7.2e Goddess Hojoor of Shewor Tuorsu Mokon, Mording HalLong ago Shewor Tuorsu Mokon had a servant girl who went mad after marriage.Her husband's family cut off one of her little fingers to exorcise the evil causing themadness. She soon returned to her parents' home, but on the way she drowned as shecrossed the Nenjiang River. Her spirit was subsequently deified. Her husband'sfamily put her little finger in her dressing box. Seven days later, when the box wasopened, a golden bird flew out. It flew into the water where she had drowned andsaw her corpse being eaten by fish. Her spirit then troubled the Shewor TuorsuMokon. Subsequently, it was established as Goddess Hojoor of the mokon.Meanwhile, her spirit became a wenguer. In the mokonJs yadgan chant for thisgoddess, her origin is revealed:She was transformed into a demon in a dressing box,Her little finger turned into a bird,The lively birdJs fate was relared to deep water near the beach.She was eaten by fish,And sucked by carps,