Prayer text for the western đầy tháng offering for boys and girls

Cúng Mụ đầy cữ, đầy tháng (offering to the Midwife Goddesses on the third-day and first-month ceremonies). Đầy cữ (the baby is 3 days old) and đầy tháng; the đầy tháng day is counted by the lunar calendar, and in many places the day is moved back depending on whether the baby is a boy or a girl

  • Mekong Delta
  • Folk practice

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Prayer text for the first-month ceremony in the Mekong Delta for boys and girls, invoking Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát, reverently addressing the First Thiên tỷ đại tiên chúa, the Second Thiên đế đại tiên chúa, the Third Thiên Mụ đại tiên chúa and the Tam thập lục cung chư vị Tiên Nương, presenting offerings and asking them to protect the child so that the child eats and sleeps well, grows quickly, is free from illness, and grows up virtuous and filial. Recited before the altar during the whole ceremony.

The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.

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This text is the version from the South.

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How it differs from the common version

The wording follows the southern accent ('sanh được', 'Bữa nay', 'Tụi con', 'ba mẹ'); omits the passage 'Nhờ ơn thập phương chư Phật' and the string 'vô bệnh vô tật, vô tai vô ương'; invites Thánh Mẫu as well; prays for the child to 'làm người hiền đức, có hiếu'. The source page itself says this version differs from other regions only in local wording.

The common version: Prayer text for the Mụ offering (đầy cữ, đầy tháng, đầy năm)

Offerings and how the rite is done

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The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.

Sources

  • Cúng đầy tháng miền Tây (docungtamlinh.com.vn)

Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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