Hmong mythology gods and goddesses play a significant role in the rich cultural traditions of the Hmong people. This ancient belief system encompasses concepts of reincarnation, ancestral worship, and a spiritual world.

Hmong mythology is a rich and complex system of beliefs and practices that permeates the daily life of the Hmong people. At its core are a variety of gods and goddesses who are revered and worshipped for their power and influence over the natural world.

The Hmong people, an ethnic group originating in Southeast Asia, predominantly inhabit the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. With a rich cultural history spanning thousands of years, the Hmong people have developed a unique set of beliefs, mythology, and rituals that continue to inform their way of life today.

Kev Dab Kev Qhuas (Hmong folk spirituality or Miao folk spirituality) is the common ethnic religion of the Miao people, best translated as the "practice of spirituality". [1] The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States. [2]

Chiyou is regarded as a leader of the Nine Li tribe (九黎, RPA White Hmong: Cuaj Li Ntuj) by nearly all sources. [10] However, his exact ethnic affiliations are quite complex, with multiple sources reporting him as belonging to various tribes, in addition to a number of diverse peoples supposed to have directly descended from him.

Traditionally, Hmong religion involves belief in animism, that all things have spiritual essences or souls, and in multiple gods or creators, which do not dwell in the physical human realm. Ancestral spirits are very important, and spirits dwell in houses, mountains, rivers, winds, and trees.

Hmong have from 1-20 souls, depending upon the group and the family. (Remember, Hmong religion developed in an egalitarian tribe: there is no hierarchical, bureaucratic institution that says what people must believe to be a member.) One soul, in the form of ox or pig, resides in Ndu Nyong's huge corral, where he keeps his livestock.

Goumang, also known as Jumang (句芒), is an auxiliary god of the Fuxi family. [1] . The Classic of Mountains and Seas described his appearance as "having a human face and a bird's body, riding on two dragons". He is the god of wood and spring, in charge of life and health. [2] According to myth, he invented the luo, a net for catching birds.

The Hmong world is inhabited by a variety of natural, ancestral, and supernatural spirits or gods. As with much in Hmong religion, Chinese influence is strong, and the Hmong Otherworld is closely modelled on the Chinese Otherworld, which in turn represents an inversion of the classical Chi nese bureacracy.

A Hmong story in which Kab Yeeb (Guanyin) is part of the name of a male character, possibly reflecting the derivation of the Chinese Godess of Mercy Guanyin from the male bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and two Hmong stories which may be Hmong retellings of the exploits of the Monkey king in Journey to the West or in Chinese folklore, pose complex ...