Mazu was born Lin Moniang, daughter of the fisherman Lin Yuan of Meizhou Island in Fujian, a silent infant who never cried from birth.
When a typhoon struck her father Lin Yuan's fishing boats, the young Lin Moniang fell into a trance and projected her spirit across the ocean, seizing the vessels and dragging them to safety through the storm.
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