Liễu Hạnh is a deity in Vietnamese folklore, from Vietnam. Princess Liễu Hạnh is a principal immortal and mother-goddess figure in Vietnamese popular religion, venerated as one of the Four Immortals and a leading figure within the Đạo Mẫu (Mother Goddess) system. She is associated with the Earth Palace (Địa Phủ) of the Four Palaces cosmology and serves a mediating, representative role within that hierarchy.
The cited sources identify Liễu Hạnh as a legendary princess who is counted among The Four Immortals of Vietnamese popular religion and who became an immortal or mother-goddess figure central to Đạo Mẫu. These sources present her as a named, apotheosized princess figure (commonly referred to as Princess Liễu Hạnh) who occupies a high place in the indigenous mother-goddess cosmology. The supplied materials do not provide detailed variants of her birth, parentage, or the fuller narrative episodes of her life and apotheosis.
The provided sources do not include detailed iconographic or descriptive material about Liễu Hạnh's physical appearance or typical garments; she is referenced primarily as a princess and mother-goddess figure within Đạo Mẫu, which in the literature associates her with the status of a regal maternal immortal, but specific visual descriptions are not given in the cited documents.
Within the Đạo Mẫu Four Palaces schema, Liễu Hạnh's documented functions are institutional and mediatory: she governs the Earth Palace (Địa Phủ) and represents the Heaven realm on behalf of the higher Mother figure Mẫu Cửu Trùng Thiên. The sources frame her as a high-ranking maternal/immortal figure in the native Vietnamese cosmology; no additional specific miraculous powers, spells, or narrative acts are supplied in the cited material.
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- [2]Mẫu Địa Phủ (Wikidata). Wikidata entry Q1195249: "Mother Goddess of the Earth Palace (Địa Phủ), one of the Four Palaces of Đạo Mẫu."wiki
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