Pauj Nam Nkaum Txiv Xaa

Nam Nkaum Txiv Xaa - Are the two spirits that send your children to you when you bare kids.

When you have your child and they are consistantly sick or if they keep crying it is believed that it is because of these two spirits (history and description in 17th Meeting - 06/23/2019, pauj nam nkawm txiv xaa)

You are also suppose to perform this ritual when your child is ones year old and you do the ceremony to receive your adult name, and Hu plig for your child.

The process
1. Hu Plig
2. pauj nam nkawm txiv xaav
These two rituals are their own indidual item with seperate plates and items. Don't mix the two.

3. Then you can also Xaiv Npe during the same event

In the olden days
Once you have a child you must hu plig and pauj nam nkawm txiv xaa within 3 days of your childs birth. Then exactly within one year you must hu plig again.

Items needed to preform this ritual

1 roster, (must be a roster)
4 cups of alcohol
1 Tawb xyaab lwj also called Tawb muag lom
4 little square money papter, plaub swm ntawv
4 paper money cutted to pattern, plaub plooj xov txheej
4 rice patties, plaub lub yeej khum ceej khum

Ritual process

bring all your items to the door and hu nam nkauj txiv xaa (with Live Chicken)
Then you kill the chicken and proceed to the next step which is to pauj
Then you call them to leeg
Then you cob to them
Then you burn the incense and paper money to them

Phrase, verse said to perform the ritual

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Ua thaaj neeb nqug qhua

If you are a txiv neeb and you have a child or and grandchild and they will live your you. You must ua thaaj neeb nqug qhua. (explained in 17th Meeting - 06/23/2019, thaaj neeb nqug qhua)

Nam Nkawm Txiv Xaa Looj Koov

Sometimes when a child is for example always sad, sick, edgy. A shaman my say it is because of nam nkawm txiv xaa looj koov. Meaning the two spirits may have come back to check up on the child and touched him/her because you as the parent may have been to harsh to the child.

In this case you will need to preform the ritual above (same as pauj), but this time to Pauj leeg txhug. (explained in 17th Meeting - 06/23/2019, Nam Nkawm Txiv Xaa Looj Koov)