Dab Pog (Spirit Couple of Children)
Dab Pog (the Spirit Couple) are the most beloved protective spirits in Hmong folk religion — a celestial husband-and-wife pair responsible for bringing children to parents on earth and protecting them throughout their lives. According to Hmong mythology, at the very beginning of time, the Dab Pog couple and the Xwm Kab (House Spirit) couple were sent by Yawm Saub to live with the Hmong people. The Dab Pog couple resides in the spirit world and decides which souls will be reborn into which families. They guide the child's soul from the spirit world to the mother's womb, and after birth, they se