In the Beginning

When Shong Lue was living at Nam Ngua [near Long Cheng, Laos] in 1966, he told Chia Koua Vang, who was one of his students, that all people have the same God. He said that he was commissioned by God his Father to bring a message to people and to be the savior on earth. He had been born to be a human being twice. The first time his name had been Shong Lue, and the second time his name [at first] was Chia Shua Yang.

Previous Visits by Sons of God

Shong Lue told Chia Koua that at the very beginning God created the earth. He created people to live on the earth, and then he sent his twelve sons to be the saviors and communicate with them. The twelve sons were sent down in turn [to different places where help was needed because people were in need or in danger] to teach all people as directed by the Father.  Sons of God have been born to be Hmong on four different occasions. In the year 326 of the Buddhist Era [the system of reckoning used in Laos; 326 B.E. = 217 B.C.] one of them was born [as a Hmong] for the first time, but soon he became known to foreigners [nationality unspecified], who paid a Hmong to kill him. The second was born [to be a Hmong] in B.E. 1269 [A.D. 728], but this messenger was also killed by foreigners, soon after his birth. The third occasion was in the year B.E. 1300 [A.D. 757] [when one of them] was born once more among the Hmong. The Hmong were afraid of him and killed him too. And the fourth time was in B. E. 1455 [A. D. 912]. The Father told this one to be born by an animal to see if the Hmong would save him. So he was born by an animal, but the Hmong did not accept him either, as in the past. The Hmong did not feed him when he was born by the animal, and as the phenomenon became known to the villagers, they accused the owner of having intercourse with his animal so they decided to kill them all, owner, the animal and the child.

So the Father saw that the Hmong are people who lack respect for the savior from God; the Father therefore punished the hmong [by requiring them] to be without recourse or adequate resources [without leader, land, food and shelter, to be subject to others, so that in time they would be willing to listen.] He would then send someone to come down and be their savior once more. the punishment of the Hmong by the Father was to end by B.E. 2500 [A.D. 1957].

God Selects a Son to be Savior

Close to the end of the penalty period the Father called for the twelve sons to come and sit around him, in order to send them down to earth. The Father asked if any one would volunteer to go and save the Hmong and the Khmu' [unrelated ethnic minority in Laos and Vietnam] on earth. The twelve sons replied that the Hmong and Khmu' are skeptical, unbelieving peoples; they did not want to go to those groups any more. The Father replied, "The Hmong penalty period has almost come to an end. Someone has to go down before then." Finally the Father said to them, "Let me sift [test] you three times. The one left after my sifting will be the one to go." The Father did this, and there were six sons left after his first sifting. Three of them were left after the second sifting. They were sons number 7, 8, and 9 [in order of birth]. Number 9 was then the one left out of the three after the final sifting.

So the Father chose him and gave him the authority to come down to bring the message and be the savior for the Hmong and the Khmu' on earth. The son asked the Father to give him the Pahawh ['alphabet' as validation], to be taught to the two groups prior to communicating to them about the Father's love, expecting to use the Pahawh which was easy enough to be taught and learned in seven days so the Hmong and Khmu' would be interested in learning it. The Father agreed and told him, "You go down first to be born as a human being, and then I will send your two younger brothers [younger from the perspective of birth order on earth, not in heaven] to bring you the Pahawh to teach to the Hmong and the Khmu'." The son had no choice but to be born as a human being and let his brothers follow once he was given that responsibility by the Father.

Shong Lue's First Life on Earth

His first period [on earth] Shong Lue was a son of a Hmong couple [clan unknown]. Three mornings after he was born, his parents named him Lue, and after he was grown and had a family his parents in-law renamed him Shong Lue. [The adding of a name by in-laws under such circumstances is a normal Hmong practice.] Even up to when he had five children, three sons and two daughters [names unknown], Shong Lue still remembered all of the things his Father had told him, and that he was the savior of the people. But although he had been waiting for a long time he had not seen his two younger brothers follow to bring him the Pahawh. So he took off his Shong Lue form and started back [to heaven] expecting to ask his Father why they hadn't followed him. 

He took off his Shong Lue form and started back, but on his way he mistakenly turned into a wild boar living in the thick jungle. He spent many years as a boar in the jungle and could not take off the boar form. He [temporarily forgot everything, but finally] remembered that the Hmong are the only ones who could help to remove his boar form. He waited until the Hmong harvested their corn, and came to cut and eat corn in a corn field, and to dig for tubers at the northern edge of the cornfield. There he found a jar of silver bars which had been buried [for safe keeping] by someone a long time ago. [He left it there.] After he was full of eating tubers he made his lair in a forest of bamboo. Once he had his lair established he kept coming back to the corn field to bite off and eat the corn, and then would return. One day the owner of the corn field came and saw that the corn was newly cut and eaten by a boar. The owner tracked him to his lair, but he did not move, so he was killed by the owner and finally had his boar form removed. 

Shong Lue arrived in heaven where the Father was, and where the two younger brothers still were. The Father asked him, "Why have you come back?" He replied, "I waited for a long time and didn't see the two of them follow me, so I came back to check." The Father said, "It was not time yet; you just hurry back, and when the time comes I will tell them to follow you." The Father ordered him back, so he came back born as a human being for the second time.

Shong Lue was Born the Second Time

Shong Lue was born to the Hmong and the Khmu' peoples at Fi Tong village in Vietnam. He was born on the 9th month the 15th day, the year of 1929. He became a son of Chong Chi Yang [father] and Kong [mother], the father a Hmong and the mother a Khmu'. Three mornings after his birth his parents named him Shua Yang. He was not even a year old when his father Chong Chi was killed by a spirit [which kills and eats people] and later his mother died also [cause unknown].
Shong Lue lived at Fi Tong village for three years. His two older brothers, Koua Yang and Chia Chue Yang, then moved the family [which included two sisters, Mai and Pa, and an adopted sister Ying] out from Fi Tong to live with their grandfather Xai Lau Yang and their uncles, Pa Ying Yang and Ga Xeng Yang at Fi Le Village in Laos. He had lived at Fi Le for only three years when his uncle Pa Ying Yang asked all the relatives to move to a better place for farming at Fi Kha Village. They stayed at Fi Kha village for three years, until his uncle Pa Ying Yang was killed [by Hmong soldiers under the French], and his uncle Ga Xeng Yang asked all of the relatives to move to Tham Ha village in Vietnam.

At that time Shua [Shong Lue] was almost nine years old, and just big enough to carry a bundle consisting of a blanket [as his pack over the trail] to Tham Ha Village. He lived at Tham Ha for three years, when his older brother Koua Yang was also killed. There were only his older brother Chue and himself [and his sisters] left with his grandfather Xai Lau Yang and uncle Ga Xeng Yang, but his grandfather Xai Lau and uncle Ga Xeng also died shortly after that.

Shong Lue was totally an orphan at Tham Ha village until he was fully grown. He married Pang Xiong at Choua Dai Village. His father-in-law was Chong Mai Xiong and mother-in-law was Xai Lo. After he married Pang Xiong they lived at Tham Ha for only a year, after which he and his wife moved to live close to the parents-in-law. He built a house at Pha Ta which was very close to Choua Dai, about two hours walk.  Once Shua had children, his parents-in-law renamed him Chia Shua Yang.  He lived at Pha Ta for three years but did not like it there so he moved back to live at Tham Ha village. Shong Lue returned to The Tham Ha village and lived there until 1959 when the two younger brothers [others sons of God] brought him the Pahawh.