About this belief system
Kinh folk religion refers to the spiritual beliefs and customs of some people from present-day Vietnam, in southeast Asia.
Top myths
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| Au Co Genesis | |
| Creation myth | |
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Top deities
Kinh myths: A-Z
- Au Co Genesis Creation myth
Nuthsell
An immortal mountain fairy named Âu Cơ married a mythical king named Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lạc"; lit.). She bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children who would become the first people of Vietnam. The people thereafter honored Âu Cơ as the mother deity of the original Vietnamese people.
Kinh deities: A-Z
- Âu Cơ Kinh · 1 myth
Âu Cơ (Vietnamese: 嫗姬) was an immortal mountain fairy in Vietnamese folk religion. She was said to have played an important role in birthing the first Vietnamese people.
- Lạc Long Quân Kinh
Lạc Long Quân (Vietnamese: 貉龍君) was a mythical Vietnamese king who was said to have fathered the first 100 Vietnamese people with Âu Cơ, an immortal fairy.
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OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Kinh." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 25 Jun. 2020, omnika.org/stable/732. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
OMNIKA (2020, June 25). Kinh. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/732
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Kinh." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created June 25, 2020. Accessed February 3, 2025. https://omnika.org/stable/732.
