The City God's friendly helper - Chinese Deities 2

In Chinese folk / vernacular religion in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, the central factor around which all else revolves is identifiable deities, ‘identification’ being a defining factor of ‘deity’, as, in its absence, the specific ritual and material cultures built up around their worship would crumble. Drawn from the Taoist, Buddhist, Imperial and Folk religion pantheons, in the everyday religion, offering incense to deities or consulting them in anthropomorphic (statue) form with divination blocks is a daily practice, as is consulting them through their spirit mediums in any of the regions 1000s of temples. This deity is one of the many helpers of the City God, and can be found in many Cit...View all