Pau Chin Hau

Pau Cin Hau was the founder and the name of a religion followed by some in Chin State and Sagaing Division in the north-western part of Myanmar.

Pau Cin Hau was born in the Tedim (Tiddim) in 1859 and lived until 1948.

Religion He claimed to have a series of dreams in 1900 in which an elderly, saintly man, later identified as the creator god, handed him a book with symbols and taught him certain shapes. He started a religious movement based on the worship of a god known as , , or (the word for "god" in the Tedim language). While earlier traditional Chin religion sacrificed to the tribal god / and other spirits (similar to the Burmese ), from 1902, Pau Cin Hau reserved the sacrifices to one creator god. Initially, the Chin people accepted neither Pau Cin Hau's religion nor Christianity, which arrived in 1899. The first Christian conversion was in 1904, and Pau Cin Hau got his first follower in 1906. By the 1930s, all the Chin followed either Christianity or Pau Cin Hau's monotheism. The missionaries rejected the traditional alcoholic drink , contrasting with its permission by Pau Cin Hau. now called "Zotuallai". The initial 1902 version was logographic and a later version is an alphabet. The script is not only a vehicle for the message but also an icon of the religion.