Once immigrants got ashore, they no longer faced the pounding waves, but epidemics and natural disasters followed one after the other. Just as natural mothers seem omnipotent, Matsu's maritime nature gradually became obscured, until she became an "omnipotent deity" on land as well.
移民定居，岸上再無波浪，繼之而襲是疫病、水旱；就像天下的母親總是全能，媽祖的海神性格逐漸模糊，而擴展為陸地上的「全能神」。