... speaks of the creation of the first man and wife, the first seeds and crops, the creation of the animals, the creation of the heavens, and the proliferation of human life. It also tells why there ... of the whole drama. Not just the drama of the living, but also the drama of the spirits and the ancestors -- the endless rejoining and separating of reincarnation. [36] The qeej lub, the ... that links the temporal and eternal. [31] While the Western mind separates the seen from the unseen world, this is not true for the Hmong. The job of the funeral qeej is to bring the personal...