Moism

Mo is followed by the Zhuang of Guangxi. It grew from older Zhuang beliefs and took on some Buddhist and Taoist doctrines. Its supreme god is Bu Luotuo, the creator and founder of the religion. Everything is held to have a spirit.

Beside Bu Luotuo stands Mu Liujia, the Flower Mother and goddess of birth, who tends a garden where every child is a flower, golden for boys and silver for girls. The priests, called mogong, may marry and need not leave home. Their sacred epic of Bu Luotuo was first passed on orally.

Each family keeps a hall for the ancestors of the last three generations, whom it fears as well as reveres. The dead are buried twice, but those who died by violence are cremated, lest they release evil spirits.