Category: HAU DONG-ART-PSYCHOLOGY

Within the Mother Goddess belief system, rituals and festivals are abundant and diverse, carrying unique characteristics that distinguish them from other religions and spiritual practices. However, the most central and representative is the ritual of...

Hầu đồng is one of the central rituals in the Vietnamese Mother Goddess Belief. In many studies, this ritual has usually been approached from two main dimensions: the spiritual and the cultural. However, the psychological perspective—though full of p...

Vietnam’s Mother Goddess Worship (Đạo Mẫu) was inscribed by UNESCO in December 2016 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. When speaking of this tradition, one cannot fail to mention the ritual of lên đồng (spirit possession), a unique, myst...

Part 1- HƯƠNG NGHĨA TEMPLE Hương Nghĩa Temple is located at No. 13 Đào Duy Từ Street, Hàng Buồm Ward, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi. In the past, this area was known as Hương Bài Hamlet (which later merged with Kiên Nghĩa Hamlet to form Hương Nghĩa Hamle...

In his research, Freud introduced the concepts of the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious reflects phenomena that humans pay attention to, phenomena about which they have relatively full awareness of existence, meaning, and value. The uncons...