Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Tam Kung" | Chinese | Local sea god. A deity with control over Rain and water and who extinguishes fires. His worship is restricted to a coastal region between Hong Kong and Macau. According to tradition he was an eight-year-old boy emperor, the last of the Sung Dynasty, who committed suicide by jumping over a cliff in the face of Kublai Khan's advance in AD 1276. His attendant is Ho Wang, who joined him in death. A sanctuary in Coloane Town in Macau, sited at the end of a narrow peninsula, is dedicated to him.... |
Goddess name "Tou Mou" | Chinese | Goddess of measure. Usually depicted with many arms and with a caste mark on her forehead, suggesting that she derives from the goddess of the aurora, MARICI, in Indian Buddhism. She is considered to live in the constellation of Ursa major and may also be an aspect of the astral goddess TIN HAU.... |
Goddess name "Trmi Mu" | Chinese | Goddess of lightning. She is said to flash her mirror at an intended victim of the god LEI KUNG'S thunderbolts to ensure his aim.... |
"Tsi-tsai" | Chinese | The Self-existent, that which is the unknown darkness. Chinese |
Goddess name "Tu (1)" | Chinese | Chthonic earth goddess. A fertility spirit also identified as she who was invoked to bring good harvests by phallic-shaped mounds of earth left in the fields.... |
Deity name "Tu Er Shen" | Chinese | A Chinese deity who manages the love and sex between men. His name literally means "rabbit deity". |
God name "Tua Pek Kong" | Chinese | One of the pantheon of Malaysian Chinese Gods. |
Goddess name "Tzu Sun Niangniang" | Chinese | Mother goddess. One of the nine dark ladies of the pantheon who are regarded as having a protective role. She was the mortal wife of a minor official and, having borne him five sons and two daughters, committed suicide in order to ensure her future chastity. She is invoked at weddings to provide children, especially sons, and special cakes are eaten by the bride and groom. One of her more famous sanctuaries, on the island of Taiwan, is the Yin Yang Stone.... |
God name "Wen-chang" | Chinese | God of literature and writing. Chinese |
God name "Weng Shiang" | Taoist / Chinese | God of literature. His name tablet hangs on the wall in many Chinese houses.... |
God name "Wong Taisin (the great immortal Wong)" | Chinese | God. Probably an incarnation or avatara of the god HUANG TI (the yellow emperor), he is considered benevolent. Closely åśśociated with a district in Kowloon which is named after him. His cult arrived in Hong Kong in 1915 from Kwangtung in the form of a painting brought by a man and his son. It was installed in a small temple in Wanchai. In 1921 a larger sanctuary was built, from public funds, facing the sea and backed by Lion Rock.... |
King name "Wu Guan" | Chinese | king of the fourth hell. Chinese |
Goddess name "Xi He" | Chinese | Goddess of Light and Mother of the Ten Suns. Chinese |
Goddess name "Xi Shi" | Chinese | Beautiful Goddess of Face Creams, Cosmetics and Perfumes. Chinese |
Goddess name "Xi-Wang-mu" | Chinese | Goddess of immortality. Chinese |
Spirit name "Xian" | Chinese | A spiritually immortal, transcendent and super-human celestial being. Chinese |
"Xiling Shi" | China | A legendary Chinese Empress wife of the Yellow Emperor who discovered silk and invented the silk loom. China |
Goddess name "Xiwangmu" | Chinese | The Daoist Goddess of Immortality, owner of the heavenly Peach Garden, and the queen of Paradise. Chinese |