Cái Ứa
Muong · numen · Muong traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Cái Ứa is the hen of the primordial bird-pair of the Mường creation epic. Together with her mate Chim Ây she nests in the world-tree and broods the clutch of eggs from which the peoples and their founding lords are hatched. She is named only in the fixed formula chim Ây cái Ứa and has no independent narrative beyond the hatching episode, but as the maternal bird she is counted among the origins of the human line in Đẻ đất đẻ nước.
Children
Domains
- creation
Powers
- broods the eggs of humankind
Epithets
- cái Ứa — the hen ỨaĐặng Văn Lung, Vương Anh, Hoàng Anh Nhân, Mo: sử thi và thần thoại dân tộc Mường (Hà Nội: NXB Khoa học Xã hội) (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Chim ÂyMated pair of world-birds who together produce the primordial clutch.Đẻ đất đẻ nước (NXB Khoa học Xã hội, 1976), đoạn đôi chim Ây - Ứa làm tổ đẻ trứng (primary)
Sources
- Cái Ứa is the female of the primordial bird-pair who, with Chim Ây, lays and broods the eggs of humankind in the cosmic si tree.: Đẻ đất đẻ nước (sử thi Mường), Vương Anh – Hoàng Anh Nhân – Bùi Thiện sưu tầm (NXB Khoa học Xã hội, Hà Nội, 1976) (primary); Jeanne Cuisinier, Les Mường (Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1948) (secondary)