Prayer text for the Mụ offering (đầy cữ, đầy tháng, đầy năm)

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

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

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  • đầy tháng (đầy cữ, đầy năm): Read according to the occasion of the ceremony: đầy cữ, đầy tháng or đầy năm.

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Sources

  • Văn khấn lễ cúng mụ (Đầy cữ, đầy tháng, đầy năm) (vankhan.vn)

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