Your Messenger message:

"Hi pai. I have been encountering Mazu lately. She keeps popping in mu consiousness. However i dont know anyone who knows about her. Do you have anything about Her pai. I learned that we came from the same place Shew was born. And that we should acknowledge her as our great great great great great grandmother. Other than that. No ine in thw family knows mich anymore except when the great elders were still alive they were brought to temples dedicated to Her."

My reply:

Hello ____!

The Filipino-Chinese community revere Ma Tzu and even hold their annual raffle to determine who keeps her image for a year--a very expensive affair. I used to have an altar statuette of her. I believe that she is syncretized as Yemaya, since she is patroness of seafarers and the sea. I even recall that, years ago, when a very strong typhoon was raging in Luzon and was en route to Taiwan, you said that the typhoon would abate before hitting Taiwan because Ma Tzu is the patroness of Taiwan.