Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ba" | China | The goddess of drought |
Goddess name "Ba Han" | China | Goddess of drought. China |
Goddess name "Baiji" | China | A goddess of health & epidemics |
God name "Bo Hsian" | China / Taoist | God. China / Taoist |
God name "Caishen" | China | God of wealth. China |
God name "Ch'I-You" | China | God of weapons, dancers, smiths and war. China |
Goddess name "Ch'ang O / Chang'e, Chang-Ngo, Heng-E / Heng-O" | China | the Chinese goddess of the moon. Unlike many lunar deities, Chang'o only lives on the moon. China |
Goddess name "Ch'ang O/ Heng-O" | China | A goddess of the moon |
God name "Ch'ang Tsai" | China | God of the spleen. China |
God name "Ch'eng Huang" | China | God of the land, ditches, moats and the people. China |
God name "Ch'ing Lung" | China | God of the lungs. China |
God name "Ch'ung Ling yu" | China | God of the nose. China |
God name "Chan Hs'ien" | China | Guardian god of children who had been a mortal king China |
God name "Chang Er" | China | Was the wife of the archer Hou Yi, who received the herb of immortality from the gods after shooting down nine of the ten Suns that were stifling the world with their heat. China |
God name "Chang Fei" | China | God of war and butchers. China |
God name "Chang Hsien" | China | God of dreams and of pregnancy. China |
God name "Chang Pan" | China | God of masons. China |
Spirit name "Chang Tao Ling" | Taoist / Chinese | God of the afterlife. The head of the heavenly Ministry of Exorcism, and allegedly the first head of the Taoist church. By tradition he vanquished the five poisonous ani malsthe centipede, scorpion, snake, spider and toadplacing their venom in a flask in which he concocted the elixir of life. Having drunk the contents at the age of 123, he ascended to heaven. He is depicted riding upon a tiger and brandishing a sword. Before the communist takeover of China, the gods of exorcism lived in a sanctuary on the dragon Tiger mountain in Kiangsi province. Exorcised spirits were trapped in jars which were stored in the cellars.... |