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A common saying and not specifically linked with this deity.
It was explained that there are three Laoye [San Laoye] of whom Da Laoye is the senior.
"Wilmott WE: The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia. The Athlone Press: London 1970.
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The phrase 'shuiwer' in Cantonese is a slang expression [slow water] for 'business is slow.'
The important fact was that all 108 had either reached their prescribed time of death and were therefore deified as saints [shen] by the Jade Emperor OR they died their violent death before their due date and were roaming ghosts who had to be pacified and placated. Here we have some devotees regarding them as spirits and asking advice and others who look upon them as dark spirits who require propitiatory offerings and no more.
Ma Yuan was the second general to be awarded the title of the Fupo, Wave Conqueror for the pacification of the southern region. The first was Lu Bode who, during the Earlier Han (ca. 120 BC), had subjugated large areas of what today is Guangdong province.
Xianfeng is a title which has been noted in connection with three entirely unconnected deities.
* Henry BC: The Cross and the Dragon: Canton: 1883.
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Meesny, William: Tungking: Noronha: Hong Kong: 1884,
Zhonglic was a common posthumous title used during the early Qing.
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atap is the generic name for the wooden-sided huts with the dried-leaf roof so common in Singapore and Malaysian rural areas until the 1970s. Atap consists of the dried leaves of the nipa palm.
19 lit. Office Keepers.
20 This is the only title which has been noted elsewhere though probably not identical with the Hainanese deity. General Gan is one of the Eight Bodyguard Generals, known as The Day Patrolling General
79
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A common saying and not specifically linked with this deity.
It was explained that there are three Laoye [San Laoye) of whom Da Laoye is
the senior.
"Wilmott WE: The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia.
The Athlone Press: London 1970.
13
The phrase 'shuiwer in Cantonese is a slang expression [slow water] for 'business is slow.'
The important fact was that all 108 had either reached their prescribed time of death and were therefore deified as saints [shen] by the Jude Emperor OR they died their violent death before their due date and were roaming ghosts who had to be pacified and placated. Here we have some devotees regarding them as spirits and asking advice and others who look upon them as dark spirits who require propitiatory offerings and no more.
Ma Yuan was the second general to be awarded the title of the Fupo, Wave Conqueror for the pacification of the southern region. The first was Lu Bode #who, during the Earlier AHan (ca. 120 BC), had subjugated large areas of what today is Guangdong province.
Xianfeng is a title which has been noted in connection with three entirely unconnected deities.
* Henry BC: The Cross and the Dragon: Canton: 1883.
10
$7
Meesny, William: Tungking: Noronha: Hong Kong: 1884,
Zhonglic was a common posthumous title used during the early Qing.
12
atap is the generic name for the wooden-sided huts with the dried-leaf roof so common in Singapore and Malaysian rural areas until the 1970s. Atap consists of the dried leaves of the nipa palm.
19 lit. Office Keepers.
20 This is the only title which has been noted elsewhere though probably not identical with the Hainanese deity. General Gan # is one of the Eight Bodyguard Generals, known as The Day Patrolling General E
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