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- Chinese deities
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Absolute (philosophy)
In philosophy (often specifically metaphysics), the absolute, in most common usage, is a perfect, self-sufficient reality that depends upon nothing external to itself.
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Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world.
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Animal worship
Animal worship (also zoolatry or theriolatry) is an umbrella term designating religious or ritual practices involving animals.
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Avalokiteśvara
In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "God looking down (upon the world)", IPA), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā).
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Axis mundi
In astronomy, axis mundi is the Latin term for the axis of Earth between the celestial poles.
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Bagua
The bagua is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
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Baosheng Dadi
Baosheng Dadi is a Deity of Medicine worshiped in Chinese folk religion and Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Baosheng Dadi are Chinese gods.
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Battle of Banquan
The Battle of Banquan took place in ancient Chinese history as recorded by Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.
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Big Dipper
The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the plough (UK, Ireland) is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude.
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Bixia Yuanjun
Bixia Yuanjun, also known as Taishan Niangniang ('The Lady of Mount Tai'), is the goddess of Mount Tai, childbirth and destiny in Chinese traditional religion (Taoism). Chinese gods and immortals and Bixia Yuanjun are Chinese deities.
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Bixiao Niangniang
Bixiao Xianzi, also known as Zhao Bixiao, is a character in the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi.
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Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
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Brahma
Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.
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Caishen
Caishen is the mythological figure worshipped in the Chinese folk religion and Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Caishen are Chinese gods.
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Cangdi
Cāngdì (蒼帝 "Green Deity" or "Green Emperor") of Dōngyuèdàdì (东岳大帝 "Great Deity of the Eastern Peak") is the manifestation of the supreme God associated with the essence of wood and spring, for which he is worshipped as the god of fertility. Chinese gods and immortals and Cangdi are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Cangjie
Cangjie is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters.
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Canshen
Cánshén (Chinese: 蚕神, "Silkworm God") or Cánwáng (蚕王 "Silkworm Ruler") is the deity of silkworm and sericulture in Chinese religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Canshen are Chinese deities.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.
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Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
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Chang'e
Chang'e (/ˈtʃɑːŋ.ə/ ''CHAHNG-ə''), originally known as Heng'e, is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Hou Yi, the great archer.
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Chen Jinggu
Chen Jinggu is a Chinese protective goddess of women, children, and pregnancy, and is believed by her worshippers to be a former Taoist priestess. Chinese gods and immortals and Chen Jinggu are deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Chidi (god)
Chìdì (赤帝 "Red Deity" or "Red Emperor") or Chìshén (赤神 "Red God"), also known as the Nándì (南帝 "South Deity") or Nányuèdàdì (南岳大帝 "Great Deity of the Southern Peak"), as a human was Shénnóng (神农 "Farmer God" or "Plowing God"), who is also the same as Yándì (炎帝 "Flame Deity" or "Fiery Deity"), a function occupied by different gods and god-kings in mytho-history.
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Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (p) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chinese Buddhist Canon" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, p. 299, Wiley-Blackwell (2014).
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese classics
The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC.
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Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese gods and immortals
Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Chinese gods and immortals and Chinese gods and immortals are Chinese deities, Chinese gods, deities in Chinese folk religion, Lists of deities and religion-related lists.
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Chinese jade
Chinese jade refers to the jade mined or carved in China from the Neolithic onward.
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Chinese salvationist religions
Chinese salvationist religions or Chinese folk religious sects are a Chinese religious tradition characterised by a concern for salvation (moral fulfillment) of the person and the society.
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Chinese temple architecture
Chinese temple architecture refer to a type of structures used as place of worship of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, or Chinese folk religion, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors.
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Chinese theology
Chinese theology, which comes in different interpretations according to the Chinese classics and Chinese folk religion, and specifically Confucian, Taoist, and other philosophical formulations, is fundamentally monistic, that is to say it sees the world and the gods of its phenomena as an organic whole, or cosmos, which continuously emerges from a simple principle.
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Chiyou
Chiyou (蚩尤; Old Chinese (ZS): *tʰjɯ-ɢʷɯ) is a mythological being that appears in Chinese mythology. Chinese gods and immortals and Chiyou are Chinese gods.
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Chthonic
The word chthonic, or chthonian, is derived from the Ancient Greek word χθών, "khthon", meaning earth or soil.
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Chuangshen
Chuángshén (床神 "Bed God") is the Chinese deity of the bedchamber. Chinese gods and immortals and Chuangshen are Chinese deities.
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City God (China)
The Chenghuangshen, is a tutelary deity or deities in Chinese folk religion who is believed to protect the people and the affairs of the particular village, town or city of great dimension, and the corresponding afterlife location. Chinese gods and immortals and city God (China) are Chinese gods.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
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Confucius
Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.
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Cosmos
The cosmos (Kósmos) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order.
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Crow
A crow (pronounced) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
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Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
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Di (Chinese concept)
Di is one of the oldest Chinese terms for the earth and a key concept or figure in Chinese philosophy and religion.
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Diyu
Diyu is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.
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DK (publisher)
Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company.
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Doumu
Dǒumǔ, also known as Dǒumǔ Yuánjūn (斗母元君 "Lady Mother of the Chariot"), Dòulǎo Yuánjūn (斗姥元君 "Lady Ancestress of the Chariot") and Tàiyī Yuánjūn (太一元君 "Lady of the Great One"), is a goddess in Chinese religion and Taoism.
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Dragon King
The Dragon King, also known as the Dragon God, is a Chinese water and weather god. Chinese gods and immortals and Dragon King are Chinese gods.
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Eight Immortals
The Eight Immortals are a group of legendary xian (immortals) in Chinese mythology. Chinese gods and immortals and Eight Immortals are Chinese deities.
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Emperor of China
Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.
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Emperor Wen of Han
Emperor Wen of Han (203/02 – 6 July 157 BC), personal name Liu Heng (劉恆), was the fifth emperor of the Han dynasty from 180 until his death in 157 BC.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Erlang Shen
Erlang Shen (l), also known as Erlang of Guankou (labels) and the Lord of Sichuan (labels), is a Chinese god with a third truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead. Chinese gods and immortals and Erlang Shen are Chinese gods.
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Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
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Feilian
Feilian or is a Chinese wind spirit from a southern tradition, later identified with and subsumed under the primary wind deity Fengbo. Chinese gods and immortals and Feilian are Chinese gods.
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Four Books and Five Classics
The Four Books and Five Classics are authoritative and important books associated with Confucianism, written before 300 BC.
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Four Seas
The Four Seas were four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China.
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Four Symbols
The Four Symbols are mythological creatures appearing among the Chinese constellations along the ecliptic, and viewed as the guardians of the four cardinal directions.
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Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
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Fuxi
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC or 2000BC. Chinese gods and immortals and Fuxi are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Ganesha
Ganesha (गणेश), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect.
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Ge Hong
Ge Hong (b. 283 – d. 343 or 364), courtesy name Zhichuan (稚川), was a Chinese linguist, philosopher, physician, politician, and writer during the Eastern Jin dynasty.
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Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
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Ghosts in Chinese culture
Chinese folklore features a rich variety of ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural creatures.
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God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (– 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.
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Guan Yu
Guan Yu, courtesy name Yunchang, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. Chinese gods and immortals and Guan Yu are Chinese deities and Chinese gods.
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Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong (c. 720–645 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician.
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Guanyin
Guanyin is a Bodhisattva associated with compassion.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
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Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
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Heavenly King
Heavenly King or Tian Wang, also translated as Heavenly Prince, is a Chinese title for various religious deities and divine leaders throughout history, as well as an alternate form of the term Son of Heaven, referring to the emperor.
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Hebei
Hebei is a province in North China.
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Hebo
Hebo, also known as Bingyi (冰夷), is the god of the Yellow River (Huang He). Chinese gods and immortals and Hebo are Chinese gods.
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Heibai Wuchang
The Heibai Wuchang, or Hak Bak Mo Seong, literally "Black and White Impermanence", are two Deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld. Chinese gods and immortals and Heibai Wuchang are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Heidi (god)
Hēidì or Hēishén, who is the Běidì (Cantonese: Pak Tai) or Běiyuèdàdì, is a deity in Chinese religion, one of the cosmological "Five Forms of the Highest Deity". Chinese gods and immortals and Heidi (god) are Chinese gods.
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Heng and Ha
Heng and Ha are two generals of the Shang dynasty in Chinese mythology, featured within the 16th-century Chinese fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods. Chinese gods and immortals and Heng and Ha are Chinese gods.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
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Homophony
In music, homophony (Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that provide the harmony.
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Hou Yi
Hou Yi is a mythological Chinese archer. Chinese gods and immortals and Hou Yi are Chinese gods.
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Houtu
Hòutǔ or Hòutǔshén, also known as Hòutǔ Niángniáng (in Chinese either or), otherwise called Dimǔ or Dimǔ Niángniáng, is the deity of all land and earth in Chinese religion and mythology.
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Huaxia
Huaxia is a historical concept representing the Chinese nation, and came from the self-awareness of a common cultural ancestry by the various confederations of pre-Qin ethnic ancestors of Han people.
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Huxian
Húxiān ("Fox Immortal"), also called Húshén ("Fox God") or Húwáng ("Fox Ruler") is a deity in Chinese religion whose cult is present in provinces of north China (from Henan and Shandong northwards), but especially in northeast China where it can be said to be the most popular deity. Chinese gods and immortals and Huxian are Chinese deities.
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Immanence
The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.
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Incantation
An incantation, a spell, a charm, an enchantment, or a bewitchery, is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Jade Emperor
In the myths and folk religion of Chinese culture, the Jade Emperor or Yudi is one of the representations of the primordial god. Chinese gods and immortals and Jade Emperor are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Ji Gong
Daoji (22 December 1130 – 16 May 1209, born Li Xiuyuan), popularly known as Ji Gong, was a Chan Buddhist monk who lived in the Southern Song.
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Jinzha
Jinzha is a figure in Chinese mythology, appearing in works such as Investiture of the Gods. Chinese gods and immortals and Jinzha are Chinese gods.
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Jiutian Xuannü
Jiutian Xuannü is the goddess of war, sex, and longevity in Chinese mythology.
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Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States.
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King Father of the East
King Father of the East, also known as Dongwanggong (東王公), is the tutelary deity of the Taoist immortals. Chinese gods and immortals and King Father of the East are Chinese gods.
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King Yan
In Chinese mythology and religion, King Yan is the god of death and the ruler of Diyu, overseeing the "Ten Kings of Hell" in its capital of Youdu. Chinese gods and immortals and King Yan are Chinese gods.
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Kitchen God
The kitchen deity – also known as the Stove God, named Zao Jun, Zao Shen, TSgt Chun, Zao kimjah, Cokimjah or Zhang Lang – is the most important of a plethora of Chinese domestic gods that protect the hearth and family. Chinese gods and immortals and kitchen God are Chinese gods.
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Kui Xing
Kui Xing, originally called 奎星 (also kuí xīng), also known as 大魁夫子 "Great Master Kui" or 大魁星君 "Great Kui the Star Lord", is a character in Chinese religion, the Deity of Examinations, and one of the Five Gods of Literature, Wu Wen Chang. Chinese gods and immortals and kui Xing are Chinese gods.
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Kunlun (mythology)
The Kunlun or Kunlun Shan is a mountain or mountain range in Chinese mythology, an important symbol representing the axis mundi and divinity.
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Leigong
Leigong or Leishen, is the god of thunder in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology and Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Leigong are Chinese gods.
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Leizu
Leizu, also known as Xi Ling-shi (Wade–Giles Hsi Ling-shih), was a legendary Chinese empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor.
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Li Jing (deity)
Li Jing, also known as Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li, is a figure in Chinese mythology and a god in Chinese folk religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Li Jing (deity) are Chinese gods.
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Liexian Zhuan
The Liexian Zhuan, sometimes translated as Biographies of Immortals, is the oldest extant Chinese hagiography of Daoist xian "transcendents; immortals; saints; alchemists".
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Longmu
In Chinese mythology, Longmu, transliterated as Lung Mo in Cantonese, was a Chinese woman who was deified as a goddess after raising five infant dragons.
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Longtaitou Festival
The Longtaitou Festival, conflated with the Zhonghe Festival beginning one day earlier, is a traditional Chinese festival held on the second day of the second month of the Chinese calendar.
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Lu Ban
Lu Ban (–444BC). Chinese gods and immortals and Lu Ban are Chinese gods.
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Luo River (Henan)
The Luo River is a tributary of the Yellow River in China.
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Luoshen
Luoshen is a well-known figure in Chinese literature and folklore. Chinese gods and immortals and Luoshen are Chinese deities.
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Macranthropy
Macranthropy is an allegorical concept where the universe is portrayed as a giant human body, with various cosmic elements represented as body parts.
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Magu (deity)
Magu is a legendary Taoist ''xian'' associated with the elixir of life, and a symbolic protector of women in Chinese mythology.
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Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
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Mazu
Mazu or Matsu is a Chinese sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Mazu are deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Menshen
Menshen, or door gods, are divine guardians of doors and gates in Chinese folk religions, used to protect against evil influences or to encourage the entrance of positive ones. Chinese gods and immortals and Menshen are Chinese deities.
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.
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Mercy
Mercy (Middle English, from Anglo-French merci, from Medieval Latin merced-, merces "price paid, wages", from Latin merc-, merxi "merchandise") is benevolence, forgiveness, and kindness in a variety of ethical, religious, social, and legal contexts.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Mongolian shamanism
Mongolian shamanism (Бөө мөргөл — Böö mörgöl), more broadly called the Mongolian folk religion, or occasionally Tengerism, refers to the animistic and shamanic ethnic religion that has been practiced in Mongolia and its surrounding areas (including Buryatia and Inner Mongolia) at least since the age of recorded history.
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Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.
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Monkey King
The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is a literary, and religious figure best known as one of the main players in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West (first). Chinese gods and immortals and Monkey King are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.
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Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods.
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Mount Tai
Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an.
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Multiperspectivity
Multiperspectivity (sometimes polyperspectivity) is a characteristic of narration or representation, where more than one perspective is represented to the audience.
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Muzha (mythology)
Muzha is a folk character in Chinese mythology. Chinese gods and immortals and Muzha (mythology) are Chinese gods.
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Names of God
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being.
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Nüwa
Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. Chinese gods and immortals and Nüwa are deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Nezha
Nezha is a protection deity in Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Nezha are Chinese gods.
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Northeast China folk religion
Northeast China folk religion is the variety of Chinese folk religion of northeast China, characterised by distinctive cults original to Hebei and Shandong, transplanted and adapted by the Han Chinese settlers of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang (the three provinces comprising Northeast China) since the Qing dynasty.
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Organizations related to the Unification Church
Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, believed in a literal Kingdom of God on earth to be brought about by human effort, motivating his establishment of numerous groups, some that are not strictly religious in their purposes.
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Ox-Head and Horse-Face
Ox-Head and Horse-Face are two guardians or types of guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology.
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Pangu
Pangu is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology and Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Pangu are Chinese gods.
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Pantheism
Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.
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Pantheon (religion)
A pantheon is the particular set of all gods of any individual polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition.
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Phra Phrom
Phra Phrom (พระพรหม; from Sanskrit: Brahmā, ब्रह्मा) is the Thai representation of the Hindu creator god Brahma. Chinese gods and immortals and Phra Phrom are deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Pneuma
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul".
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Polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.
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Potentiality and actuality
In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima.
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Prince of Dai
Prince or King of Dai was an ancient and medieval Chinese title.
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Qi
In the Sinosphere, qi is traditionally believed to be a vital force part of all living entities.
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Qingshui (monk)
Qingshui (1047-1101), also known as Chó͘-su-kong, born Chen Zhaoying was a Chan Buddhist monk during the Northern Song from Anxi County, Quanzhou. Chinese gods and immortals and Qingshui (monk) are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Qiongxiao Niangniang
Qiongxiao Xianzi, also known as Zhao Qiongxiao, is a character in the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi.
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Queen Mother of the West
The Queen Mother of the West, known by various local names, is a mother goddess in Chinese religion and mythology, also worshipped later in neighbouring Asian countries.
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Records of the Grand Historian
Records of the Grand Historian, also known by its Chinese name Shiji, is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's Twenty-Four Histories.
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Sacred Mountains of China
The Sacred Mountains of China are divided into several groups.
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Salt Commission
The Salt Industry Commission was an organization created in 758, during the decline of Tang dynasty China, used to raise tax revenue from the state monopoly of the salt trade, or salt gabelle.
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Sanxing (deities)
The Sanxing are the gods of the three celestial bodies considered essential in Chinese astrology and mythology: Jupiter, Ursa Major, and Canopus. Chinese gods and immortals and Sanxing (deities) are Chinese gods.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Sericulture
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
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Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in East China.
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Shangdi
Shangdi, also called simply Di, is the name of the Chinese Highest Deity or "Lord Above" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tiān ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology. Chinese gods and immortals and Shangdi are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Shaohao
Shaohao, also known as Jin Tian, was a legendary Chinese sovereign, usually identified as a son of the Yellow Emperor.
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Shen (Chinese religion)
Shen is a Chinese word with senses of deity, god or spirit. Chinese gods and immortals and Shen (Chinese religion) are Chinese deities.
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Shennong
Shennong (神農), variously translated as "Divine Farmer" or "Divine Husbandman", born Jiang Shinian (姜石年), was a mythological Chinese ruler known as the first Yan Emperor who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Shennong are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Shenshu and Yulü
Shenshu or Shentu (t) and Yulü or Yulei (s) are a pair of deities in Chinese mythology who punished evil spirits by binding them in reed ropes and feeding them to tigers. Chinese gods and immortals and Shenshu and Yulü are Chinese gods.
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Shenxian Zhuan
The Shenxian Zhuan, sometimes given in translation as the Biographies of the Deities and Immortals, is a hagiography of immortals and description of Chinese gods, partially attributed to the Daoist scholar Ge Hong (283-343).
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Shi Gandang
Shi Gandang is a Chinese god and the protector of the home. Chinese gods and immortals and Shi Gandang are Chinese deities and Chinese gods.
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Shizi (book)
The Shizi is an eclectic Chinese classic written by Shi Jiao 尸佼 (c. 390–330 BCE), and the earliest text from Chinese philosophical school of Zajia (雜家 "Syncretism"), which combined ideas from the Hundred Schools of Thought, including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, and Legalism.
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Shu (kingdom)
Shu (s; Pinyin: Shǔ; former romanization: Shuh), also known as Ancient Shu (s) in historiography, was an ancient kingdom in what is now Sichuan Province.
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Shuowen Jiezi
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).
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Sino-Platonic Papers
Sino-Platonic Papers is a scholarly monographic series published by the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sixth Tone
Sixth Tone is a state-owned English-language online magazine published by Shanghai United Media Group.
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Songzi Niangniang
Songzi Niangniang (送子娘娘, "The Maiden Who Brings Children"), also referred to in Taiwan as Zhusheng Niangniang (註生娘娘), is a Taoist fertility goddess.
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, China.
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Taiyuan Daily
Taiyuan Daily, also known as Taiyuan Ribao, is a simplified Chinese newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.
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Tao
In various Chinese religions and philosophies, the Tao or Dao is the natural lessons of the universe that one's intuition must discern to realize the potential for individual wisdom and spiritual growth, as conceived in the context of East Asian philosophy, religion, and related traditions. This seeing of life cannot be grasped as a concept.
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Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching or Laozi is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated.
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Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
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The Paper (newspaper)
The Paper (l) is a Chinese digital newspaper owned and run by the state-owned Shanghai United Media Group.
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Three Great Emperor-Officials
The Three Great Emperor-Officials, Sanguan, or the Three Officials are three of the highest ''shen'' in some branches of religious Taoism, and subordinate only to the Jade Emperor (玉帝 yùdì). Chinese gods and immortals and three Great Emperor-Officials are Chinese gods.
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Three teachings
In Chinese philosophy, the three teachings (tam giáo, Chữ Hán: 三教) are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
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Tian
Tian (天) is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven and a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophy, and religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Tian are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Tianxia
Tianxia, 'all under Heaven', is a Chinese term for a historical Chinese cultural concept that denoted either the entire geographical world or the metaphysical realm of mortals, and later became associated with political sovereignty.
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Tianzhu (Chinese name of God)
Tianzhu (w), meaning "Heavenly Master" or "Lord of Heaven", was the Chinese word used by the Jesuit China missions to designate God.
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Toilet god
A toilet god is a deity associated with latrines and toilets.
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Transcendence (religion)
In religion, transcendence is the aspect of existence that is completely independent of the material universe, beyond all known physical laws.
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Tu'er Shen
Tu'er Shen (The Leveret Spirit), Hu Tianbao or Tu Shen (The Rabbit God), is a Chinese deity who manages love and sex between men. Chinese gods and immortals and Tu'er Shen are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Tudigong
A Tudigong (l) is a kind of Chinese tutelary deity of a specific location. Chinese gods and immortals and Tudigong are Chinese gods.
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Tungusic peoples
Tungusic peoples are an ethnolinguistic group formed by the speakers of Tungusic languages (or Manchu–Tungus languages).
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Tutelary deity
A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.
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University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Wen and wu
Wén and wǔ are a conceptual pair in Chinese philosophy and political culture describing opposition and complementarity of civil and military realms of government.
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Wen Shen
Wen Shen is a deity or group of deities responsible for illness, plague, and disease in Chinese folk religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Wen Shen are Chinese gods.
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Wenchang Wang
Wenchang Wang, also known as Wenchang Dijun, is a Taoist deity in Chinese mythology, known as the God of Culture and Literature. Chinese gods and immortals and Wenchang Wang are Chinese gods.
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White Emperor
Báidì (白帝 "White Emperor" or "White Deity") or Báishén (白神 "White God"), also known as the Xīdì (西帝 "West Deity") or Xīyuèdàdì (西岳大帝 "Great Deity of the Western Peak") is one of the five manifestations of the deity Shangdi. Chinese gods and immortals and White Emperor are Chinese deities and Chinese gods.
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Women in ancient and imperial China
Women in ancient and imperial China were restricted from participating in various realms of social life, through social stipulations that they remain indoors, whilst outside business should be conducted by men.
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Wong Tai Sin
Wong Tai Sin or Huang Daxian is a Chinese Taoist deity popular in Jinhua, Zhejiang, and Hong Kong with the power of healing.
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Wufang Shangdi
The Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Regions' Highest Deities" or "Highest Deities of the Five Regions"), or simply Wǔdì (五帝 "Five Deities") or Wǔshén (五神 "Five Gods") are, in Chinese canonical texts and common Chinese religion, the fivefold manifestation of the supreme God of Heaven (天 Tiān, or equivalently 上帝 Shàngdì). Chinese gods and immortals and Wufang Shangdi are Chinese deities, Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)
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Xian (Taoism)
A xian is any manner of immortal, mythical being within the Taoist pantheon or Chinese folklore. Chinese gods and immortals and xian (Taoism) are Chinese deities and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Xiang River
The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China.
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Xiangshuishen
The Xiangshuishen or Xiang River Goddesses are goddesses (or spirits and sometimes gods) of the Xiang River in Chinese folk religion.
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Xihe (deity)
Xihe, was a solar deity in Chinese mythology.
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Xingtian
Xingtian (also Hsing T'ien) is a Chinese deity who fights against the Supreme Divinity, not giving up even after the event of his decapitation. Chinese gods and immortals and Xingtian are Chinese gods.
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Xu Shen
Xu Shen was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–189 CE).
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Xuanwu (god)
Xuanwu (玄武) or Xuandi, also known as Zhenwu (真武) or Zhenwudadi (真武大帝), is a revered deity in Chinese religion, one of the higher-ranking deities in Taoism. Chinese gods and immortals and Xuanwu (god) are Chinese gods.
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Xunzi (book)
The Xunzi is an ancient Chinese collection of philosophical writings attributed to and named after Xun Kuang, a 3rd-century BCE philosopher usually associated with the Confucian tradition.
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Yan Emperor
The Yan Emperor or the Flame Emperor was a legendary ancient Chinese ruler in pre-dynastic times.
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Yan Huang Zisun
Yan Huang Zisun, or descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperors, is a term that represents the Chinese people and refers to an ethnocultural identity based on a common ancestry associated with a mythological origin.
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Yellow Emperor
The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or by his Chinese name Huangdi, is a mythical Chinese sovereign and culture hero included among the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and an individual deity (shen) or part of the Five Regions Highest Deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Yellow River
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.
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Yidi (god)
Yidi (仪狄: Yee Dee) is the god of wine and alcohol in Chinese mythology (Daoism). Chinese gods and immortals and Yidi (god) are Chinese gods.
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Yin and yang
Yin and yang, also yinyang or yin-yang, is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle.
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Yinyanggong
Yinyanggong, also known as Yinyangsi, is a Taoist deity and the personification of the union of yin and yang. Chinese gods and immortals and Yinyanggong are Chinese gods.
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
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Yue Lao
Yue Lao is a god of marriage and love in Chinese mythology. Chinese gods and immortals and Yue Lao are Chinese gods.
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Yunxiao Niangniang
Yunxiao Xianzi, also known as Zhao Yunxiao, is a character in the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi.
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Zhenren
Zhenren (or 'person of truth') is a Chinese term that first appeared in the Zhuangzi meaning "Taoist spiritual master" in those writings.
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Zhong Kui
Zhong Kui (Jonggyu; Shōki; Chung Quỳ) is a Taoist deity in Chinese mythology, traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings. Chinese gods and immortals and Zhong Kui are Chinese gods.
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Zhuanxu
Zhuanxu (Chinese: trad. 顓頊, simp. 颛顼, pinyin Zhuānxū), also known as Gaoyang (t 高陽, s 高阳, p Gāoyáng), was a mythological emperor of ancient China.
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Zhurong
Zhurong, also known as Chongli, is an important personage in Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. Chinese gods and immortals and Zhurong are Chinese gods and deities in Chinese folk religion.
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Zigu
Zigu, also known as Maogu, is a goddess representing toilets in Chinese folk religion.
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See also
Chinese deities
- Baigujing
- Bixia Yuanjun
- Canshen
- Chinese dragons
- Chinese goddesses
- Chinese gods
- Chinese gods and immortals
- Chuangshen
- Daoming
- Dapeng Jinchi Mingwang
- Donghuang Taiyi
- Eight Immortals
- General Baokeng
- Goumang
- Guan Yu
- Heifeng Guai
- Huayue Sanniang
- Huxian
- Juling Shen
- Lishan Laomu
- Liu Chenxiang
- Luoshen
- Ma Yuan (deity)
- Mahakala
- Menshen
- Miaozhuang Wang
- Mingong (deity)
- Pilanpo
- Puti Zushi
- Shen (Chinese religion)
- Shi Gandang
- Shuimu
- Tu'er Ye
- Twenty-Four Protective Deities
- White Emperor
- Wudaxian
- Wufang Shangdi
- Xian (Taoism)
- Xianhe Tongzi
- Xu Shilin (character)
- Yang Asha
- Yanguang Niangniang
- Yaoguai
- Yaoji
- Youchao
- Yu Shiqie
- Yue Fei
- Zhenyuan Daxian
- Zhulong (mythology)
Deities in Chinese folk religion
- Cangdi
- Chen Jinggu
- Chinese gods and immortals
- Dongyue Dadi
- Fuxi
- Gonggong
- Heibai Wuchang
- Jade Emperor
- Jiang Ziwen
- Laozi
- Li Tieguai
- Mazu
- Monkey King
- Nüwa
- Phra Phrom
- Qingshui (monk)
- Shangdi
- Shennong
- Sun Tzu
- Tian
- Tu'er Shen
- Wang Ye worship
- Wufang Shangdi
- Xian (Taoism)
- Xian ling (religion)
- Xiyue Dadi
- Zhurong
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