{"id":5473,"date":"2005-08-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/21\/2005-08-21-chinese-sea-goddess-invoked-for-tsunami-victims\/"},"modified":"2005-08-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T12:00:00","slug":"2005-08-21-chinese-sea-goddess-invoked-for-tsunami-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/21\/2005-08-21-chinese-sea-goddess-invoked-for-tsunami-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Sea Goddess Invoked for Tsunami Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/08\/19\/MTFH93061_2005-08-19_15-46-07_EIC956684.html\">www.breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BANGKOK, THAILAND, August 19, 2005: With Asian tourists still shunning its southern beaches, Thailand is calling in a revered Chinese sea goddess to ward off the restive spirits of the thousands who died in last December&#8217;s tsunami. A statue of Godmother Ruby, known as Mazu in Chinese, will be brought to the Thai island of Phuket from the Chinese coastal province of Fujian next month for ghost-clearing rites, said Suwalai Pinpradab of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. &#8220;After the tsunami, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Chinese and other East Asians dare not come because they don&#8217;t want to visit places where mass deaths took place,&#8221; Suwalai told Reuters on Friday. &#8220;It is inauspicious.&#8221; Mazu, a Taoist goddess of the sea, has a huge following among fishermen and shipworkers in coastal provinces of southern China and Taiwan. Thailand&#8217;s official death toll from the December 26 disaster stands at 5,395, of which 2,436 are believed to be foreigners. Of these, fewer than 50 were East Asians.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.breitbart.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, August 19, 2005: With Asian tourists still shunning its southern beaches, Thailand is calling in a revered,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}