Baijie is the most studied goddess of the Bai, worshipped only in the Dali region. Megan Bryson traces four historical guises: a Buddhist goddess and consort of Mahakala in the Dali-kingdom ritual text Dahei tianshen daochang yi; Baijie Amei, a plum-born maiden who conceived the dynasty's founder Duan Siping after touching a dragon, a legend that crystallised in the fifteenth century under the Ming; the chaste widow-martyr Cishan (Baijie Furen), who identified her burned husband by an iron bracelet after the Nanzhao king's massacre at the Pine-Torch Tower and then took her own life; and a tutelary village benzhu venerated chiefly by older women today. The widow-martyr account is preserved in the Bai song of the Burning of the Pine-Torch Tower, the legend that the Bai attach to the Torch Festival.