Mazu: Empress of Heaven and Sea

Nobody sets out to invent a god. So how does it happen? In the tenth century, on a poor island off the Fujian coast, a shaman's daughter named Lin Moniang went into the sea after a drowning sailor and never came back. She was barely out of her teens, and she should have been forgotten within a generation. Instead, the fishermen who mourned her began to see her: a girl in red robes moving over the ...