Holy Mother

Holy Mother

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Occupation	Spirit medium
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	7th century CE
Last known status	Deceased
Eye color	Unknown* (the only known representation of her face depicts her with her eyes closed)
Hair color	Black
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	Lady Kee'ra (sister; deceased) Khura'in royal family (descendants) Fey clan (descendants)
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	None mentioned
One-off nicknames
Her Holy Motherness* (by Phoenix Wright)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	始祖さま (Shiso-sama)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Foreign Turnabout (allusions)
Musical theme	"The Holy Mother ~ Teachings of Khura'in"

Rayfa Padma Khura'in

O Holy Mother! We hold this Divination Séance in your name!

— Various

The Holy Mother is the founder of the Kingdom of Khura'in, as well as the patron deity of the Khura'inese faith. Owing to her religious significance, her face is not depicted on any painting or other artwork of her, aside from the interior of the Founder's Orb. She, along with her sister, Lady Kee'ra, founded the kingdom in the 7th century CE.

Name

• Her Japanese name "Shiso-sama" (始祖さま) simply means "the founder".
• Her English name may come from the Virgin Mary or from the Holy Ghost, as Khura'inism shares some similarities with Christianity.

Development

• The Holy Mother's design appears to be based on Guanyin, an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion and more commonly known in English as the "Goddess of Mercy". The Holy Mother could also be said to resembles Christian depictions of the Virgin Mary, as the similarities between the two were such that statuettes of the Virgin Mary were sometimes disguised as Guanyin by persecuted Christians in Japan.

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