Lord of the Otherworld
Hmong · deity · Hmong otherworld cosmology; living belief · Recorded classification
Deity (lord of the otherworld / underworld bureaucracy). English title leads; native RPA Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem in alt/transliterations. His counterpart-judge is Ntxwj Nyug.
Domains
- death and the afterlife
- reincarnation and rebirth
Powers
- Issues from his great desk the licenses that permit souls to be reborn
Sources
- Nyuj Vaj Tuam Teem is one of the two ruling lords of the Hmong otherworld, seated at a great desk issuing licenses for the rebirth of souls (paired with Ntxwj Nyug who judges the dead).: Jacques Lemoine, Kr'ua Ke: Showing the Way — A Hmong Initiation of the Dead, Pandora, 1983 (secondary); Nicholas Tapp, 'Hmong Religion', Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 48, no. 1, 1989 (secondary)