Tien- Kou ORIGIN: China T’ien-kou literally translates as “Celestial Dog” and refers to two different but possibly related things: • T’ien-kou are shooting stars. • T’ien-kou are dreaded dog-shaped mountain Demons. T’ien-kou
Yaoji : Princess of the Flowery Clouds Yaoji, twenty-third and youngest Fairy daughter of Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, is among the primary Taoist goddesses. She has dominion over birth, sex, lust, life, death, healing, and dreams.
Ch’ih Ching-tzu (son of red essence, red spirit) In Chinese mythology, the spirit of fire, who made himself clothes from red leaves. He is one of the Wu Lao, the five spirits
Ch’en Nan : In Chinese legend, a sage who had the power to cause rain; he lived 1,350 years, mostly on dogs’ flesh. Once, passing through a village, he found people praying
Cheng San-kung In Chinese legend, a deified mortal honoured as patron god of fishermen. Cheng San-kung, Hou Erh-kung, and Keng Ch’i-kung all fished together, as sworn brothers. One day they saw a
Chang Hsien (Chang the immortal) In Chinese mythology, a deified mortal, patron god of childbearing, often portrayed as an old man. He holds in his hand a bow and arrow, with which
Chang Chiu : In Chinese legend, a deified Taoist sage who wore thin, unlined clothes, even in the depths of winter. Once Chang Chiu was invited to the emperor’s court to exhibit
Huang Fei-hu (‘yellow flying tiger’) Known also, in abbreviated form, as Fei. A Chinese god, lord of the sacred mountain of Tai Shan, in eastern China. Originally a chthonic deity in the
Heng E (Change-e) Chinese goddess of the moon, a younger sister of the river god →He Bo. After stealing the pill of immortality from her husband, the sun-god → Shen Yi, she
Chinese god of war, patron of literature and protector of trade and merchants. In the Manchu dynasty he was particularly venerated because of his warlike functions; but in other periods of Chinese
Cao Guo-Jiu is the most recent addition to the party of spirits known as the Eight Immortals. There are strikingly different versions of how he came to attain this role. Before Cao
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