These photos depict the INITIAL consecration process.

The sealing of stuff inside the statue is done to ACTIVATE the statue.

This is not an already activated statue with further stuff being added on to it.

This is a new, UNACTIVATED statue that is being activated by sealing stuff inside it.

Hi Nacht, can u provide me more info on ancestors worshipping. Do our ancestors get our daily offering n stuff we burn for them???

Also I'll be changing my ancestors tablet by myself (not getting any master to help me) any dos n don't I must aware.

How to dispose the old ancestors tablet??? Someone ask me to burn it, is this the right method???

They will only get your offerings if they deserve to.

Burning is the correct method to dispose of the old one, yes, but do remember that the new one has to be consecrated for it to be used.

Hi Nacht, is that wen wu pan guan in the picture, are they from the underworld too???


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You are right, those are Wen Wu Pan Guan/the Civil and Military Judges.

But like the City God, the Civil and Military Judges are not Hell deities, strictly speaking.

Hi Nacht, this are four different color faces of mazu goddess, do they represent anything like wealth, protection etc.


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The flesh faced Ma Zu is your standard type, geared at protecting travellers and seafaring folk.

The dark faced Ma Zu is specifically geared towards providing protection against evil influences.

The gold faced Ma Zu represents her most enlightened and highest ranking form, after attaining the title of Heavenly Empress.

No idea about the red faced one.

Hey Nacht
1. You usually see tu di gong being seated next to his wife tu di puo.
But the stories i heard is that tu di puo usually think her husband is too generous in giving wealth and will rein him in. So to make sure he isn't too generous and can save the wealth or something like that. So he don't give all the wealth away.
So why people still put him together with tu di puo since they will prevent tu di gong from giving them more wealth? Any reason?

2. Do you know anything about the kusu island pilgrimage in Singapore? I heard its related to tua pek gong and guanyin. People usually travel across the sea to a small island (but still inside Singapore territory) to pray during the 9th lunar month. I heard many people from johor go as well. But is there any such pilgrimages for people in the north or even central part of malaysia? Like klang, penang, ipoh... that are famous and many people go?

1. As Tu Di Gong represents the generous, giving side of the soil and nature, Tu Di Po represents the austere, harsher side of it. She is a strict lady, and does not approve of her husband's munificence. Stories abound of her scolding him or crossly pulling his ears when he is overly generous. In all fairness, she has a point, as his kindness is exploited or taken advantage of more often than not.

Why do people put them together nevertheless? Well, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, let alone a woman who is forcibly separated from her beloved husband. Let that sink in.

2. The Kusu Island pilgrimage is in relation to the island's deities of the soil, namely Tua Pek Gong and some Datuks. It doesn't matter what part of Malaysia you are from; given how advanced the travel and transport networks are these days, you can very easily take a flight to Singapore and then hop on a boat to Kusu.

I am not aware of any large-scale pilgrimages of the sort that happen within Malaysia, no, although a lot of Hell deity worshipers (myself included) make it a point to visit Penang during the Hungry Ghost Festival if they can help it, as Penang's festivities for the Seventh Month are truly something to behold.

Hi Nacht, do you know what ritual are they doing???


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This is another ritual


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dragon?

This is a ritual to honour the Earth Dragons, ancient dragon deities of the soil who are the totem animals of Tu Di Gong/Tua Pek Gong.

Earth Dragons are often depicted as the dragon-headed staff that Tu Di Gong/Tua Pek Gong holds, and are referenced in the plaques used to worship deities of the soil (the first line of the inscription reads '五方五土龙神' - 'dragon deities of the five directions and the five soils').

The cardboard cut-out man being buried and sealed inside the coffin is a 'substitute', an effigy used to house negative energy and/or misfortune that has been plaguing a devotee.

By consigning the cardboard man to the earth, the devotee's troubles will be likewise 'dead and buried'.

Hi Nacht, another ritual using the dragon method. Check out the purple light, does it look like something or am I just imaginin.


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