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600,000 People Gather in Beigang for Mazu Birthday Celebration
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9 months ago
Some 600,000 people have gathered in southern Taiwan to celebrate the birthday of Mazu, the goddess of the sea.
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Six-hundred thousand people traveled to southern Taiwan for a massive festival celebrating
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the sea goddess Mazu.
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Half of them took part in this year's Bai Shatun pilgrimage, walking for two days and
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two nights.
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The rest joined them at the goddess' turnaround point at Chaotian Temple in Beigang.
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Mazu is Taiwan's most worshipped folk deity.
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Every spring, two of Asia's largest pilgrimages celebrate her birthday.
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