Exotic temple worship 'she' in Dong Nai solid

Exotic temple worship 'she' in Dong Nai solid

In Ben Wood (An Hoa commune, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai) has a small temple built by the people to worship snakes, according snake worship of the old South. Perhaps this is the only temple in Dong Nai are solid church.

Through the renovation and build time, so far the throne hall of the temple was built to look like a ... house level 4, no longer carries the shadow of a more ancient temple.

Shrines named her temple Delineation, adjacent to Ben Wood waterfront. According to the explanation of scholar-cultural researchers Southern Vietnam Dung Ly, the words "Delineation" not the name of a person but a movement of a snake circled huge. Initially, temples and shrines named Mrs. Delineation solid. But because of the reclamation, people "abstain" from "solid" new creation called shrines She Delineation until today.

According to the book "The An Hoa Release" (by author Vietnam Dung Ly compiled in 2007) recorded that: "In the past, there is a snake the size of a calf adults, the first or the last red crested located circle on the waterfront. Ben Wood village people to bode well, there god bless the good harvest, harvest should build a temple to worship her with bamboo snake god. later, in the neighborhood Mai family Chai (Ben wood) has built and restored heart temple nicer to brick, stone, wood in 1930, 1954 ... Every year, a large shrine to worship Ba Delineation March full moon lunar features here remain distinct continue offering raw pork.

Ben Wood People still handed each a story: On worship, at midnight they heard a very clear voice and music horses whinny from Ben Wood River ran slowly up the shrine expectations. It is believed that she was in the riverbed snakes Delineation Ben Wood rode to attend worship with the local population and to receive items is ... raw pork offerings. This may be a myth, spiritual colored folk. But once people have believed they should not be dismissed because belief will help police be patted his heart ... "

Currently, for whatever reason do not understand that the inside of the main hall only altar Marble shifting shifting under her worship of the South, not spiritual status altar "she" Delineating more solid. However, continuous worship "she" remained solid throughout ancient times until today. This is a folk subculture that Ben Wood told board people with progeny turns to preserve and promote the future forever.