Mubyasei, deified as Aba Mubita and also called Abba Chi, is the overarching God of Heaven in Qiang folk religion and the foremost of the five great gods whose white quartz stones crown every house and watchtower. Ethnographers from David Crockett Graham onward have linked the name to the notion of the sky (tian), and Qiang worshippers commonly identify him with the Jade Emperor of surrounding Chinese tradition while keeping his distinctive white-stone cult. In the war legend he sends down three white stones that swell into snow-mountains to save his people, and in the great origin epic he is the celestial father who tests the monkey-suitor of his daughter Mujiezhu. He receives the chief sacrifices of the Qiang New Year and remains the central object of the white-stone (baishi) cult mediated by the shibi priest.