Dongyue Dadi
Chinese · deity · mythic · deity
Chinese religion organises the afterlife as a civil service, and this is the department head. The Book of Life is a filing system: your death is not a fate but an appointment, entered in a register kept by clerks who work for a mountain. Everything below him in this batch — Yanluo Wang, the Ten Kings, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Meng Po at the last bridge — is staff. The registry had the staff no more than it had the minister.
Domains
- mountains
- fate
Sources
- Reference treatment of Dongyue Dadi and his ministry.