Moloxgyap, the female creator-mother

Moloxgyap, sinicized Muliujia and in some districts called Meh Nangz or Muniang ('mother goddess'), is the female creator and primal mother of the Zhuang. In the Baeu Rodo tradition she descends with Baeuqloxdoh to the newly made earth and shares in ordering it; living with him in a cave she reproduces humankind and the animals. She is invoked alongside her husband in Mo ceremonies, the paired formula 'ask Baeuqloxdoh, ask Moloxgyap' marking them as the joint fountainhead of wisdom and life. Scholarship notes that local goddess cults sometimes fold her together with the flower-mother of fertility.

Domains

• creation and fertility

Powers

• to bring forth humankind and the animals upon the new earth

Epithets

• Meh NangzKao, Ya-ning. 'Religious Revival among the Zhuang People in China: Practising "Superstition" and Standardizing a Zhuang Religion.' Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43, no. 2 (2014): 107-144. (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: Baeuqloxdoh, the supreme creatorShe is the wife and creative partner of Baeuqloxdoh; the two are invoked together as the wise primal couple in Mo ritual.Holm, David. Recalling Lost Souls: The Baeu Rodo Scriptures, Tai Cosmogonic Texts from Guangxi in Southern China. Bangkok: White Lotus, 2004. (secondary)

Sources

• Moloxgyap (Muliujia) is the female creator-mother of the Zhuang and the wife of Baeuqloxdoh, jointly responsible for ordering the world and generating humankind.: Holm, David. Recalling Lost Souls: The Baeu Rodo Scriptures, Tai Cosmogonic Texts from Guangxi in Southern China. Bangkok: White Lotus, 2004. (secondary); Kao, Ya-ning. 'Religious Revival among the Zhuang People in China: Practising "Superstition" and Standardizing a Zhuang Religion.' Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 43, no. 2 (2014): 107-144. (secondary)