Where it began

A night on the Mazu pilgrimage

It began on the Mazu pilgrimage in Taiwan in 2023. Hundreds of thousands of people walked through the night in real devotion, following the goddess of the sea from temple to temple.

Among the incense and the firecrackers were t-shirts: joyful, commercial and sacred all at once, and nobody saw a contradiction. The Deity Project is built on that truth.

Here every figure is catalogued, drawn to the iconography of their own tradition, and honoured as one of the many names of the same great mystery. Sabka Malik Ek: one source, many names.