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Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script

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This account of the Hmong script created by Shong Lue Yang for his people is a strangely Christ-like tale which reads at times like an adventure novel, but you never forget it is true. Smalley, a Baptist minister, remains fashionably objective in his telling of the story. Useful for linguistics classes and anyone interested in the origin of writing systems.

This was a really good book that talks a lot about Shong Lue Vue and his writing. It goes through the history, the problems, and the different stages that he went through to come up with the final one. It includes all the versions and how they are written. Overall a very good book...if you are interested.

This book was excellent. it's been a long time since i bought it and still is in good, strong, and excellent condition. The story is so touching and yes in the end it was known that Vang Pao send out that bombing that killed him. it's been told everywhere in the hmong community. I think they should of made a high budget movie out of this guy. it would of turned out good too.

There is a saying in Chinese that if one man sees a tiger in the market alone then it is not true, but if a second man sees it too, then perhaps it may be true but if a third man sees a tiger in the market then, it must be true. Thus, "mother of writing" for the Hmong is like VERY SIMILAR to this Chinese proverb. Since more than three people have seen it then it must be true, especially, two of the authors are Hmong and one is a non-Hmong author. But for me, I would beg to be differ from this proverb. If we were to sit and analyze the whole writing system developed by so called the "mother of writing," we will find that the characters are very similar to other writing systems around the region of Asia countries including the former USSR/Russia. Thus, I read this book as a fairytale, nothing more for this particular subject.

I read the first twenty pages and I knew why it died. The God described in this book is not like the one and true living God we all christians come to believe. There are red flags everywhere and obviously the author should have known about them if he was a believer. Let see:

God = good, Satan = bad
Communicate with God through prayer, not opium "hello!"
Communicate with demons through a shaman

Bottom line is this guy has been smoking too much opium and hallucinating the whole thing. Anyone can tell you that the messianic alphabets his God revealed to him are commonly used through out the regions of the country.

If you believe in the ocult or want to live in a fantasy world, this book might stir up some wild imaginations.