摘要：When the spirit medium of Ph. D.y Temple visited the Vietnam Museum of
Ethnology in 2002, she was shocked to see the gold-plated Mother Goddess
statues her temple had given to the museum placed on the storeroom floor
(for cleaning). This incident led Dr. Laurel Kendall, Ms. V. Th. Thanh Tam,
and Ms. Nguy.n Th. Thu H..ng to learn more about how Ph. D.y Temple
had conceptualized the manufacture of statues that would never be ritually
animated but had been presented to the Goddess as “offerings.” Although
ritual animation makes the statue a god, a complex mix of ritual and technology
insures that the statue will be an auspicious container and complicates its
identity as sacred or mundane.
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