A while ago we published an account of Ma-tsu (Mazu), a Chinese Form of Dea, written by honored Bishop Sarah Morrigan of the Collyridian Episcopate. Fascinating news is now coming to light of a revival in Her worship after years of official-atheist darkness in China.

For this years Mazu (Ma-Tsu) festival, a major celebration in Taiwan, there have been more visitors from the Mainland than ever. While the changing policies on the both sides of the Taiwan Strait can be a factor in this increase of tourists/pilgrims from the Mainland, it is also an indicator of the Chinese peoples hunger for the Goddess worship that has been an important part of Chinese culture but has long been banned under the guise of anti-feudalism and anti-superstition under the Communist Party of China (CPC). According to the BBC, Mainland visitors are in Taiwan trying to learn how Mazu is worshiped. Indeed, it is not just tourists who are curious; the government of the Peoples Republic also has consulted with the Taiwanese for help in restoring various Mazu temples throughout the coastal region of the continental China, which have been destroyed, repurposed or put in disuse following the 1949 revolution and the Great Cultural Revolution.