Dongyue Dadi
Chinese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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
- Dongyue Dadi is the Daoist deity of Mount Tai and the head of the celestial ministry that maintains the Book of Life, the register of when each soul is due before the judges of hell.: Reference treatment of Dongyue Dadi and his ministry. (secondary)