Qinguang Wang
Chinese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
He is intake. The other eight kings of the ten are not in this batch because the sources reachable in this session name the set and describe only the first and the fifth; recording eight names with an ordinal each would be filling a table rather than ingesting figures, and the census blocks them with that stated. What the first court establishes is that Chinese hell begins with paperwork.
Domains
- judgment
Relations
- companion: Yanluo WangThe fifth king; this is the first.Reference treatment of the Ten Kings of Hell, of whom Yanluo Wang is the fifth. (secondary)
Sources
- Qinguang Wang is the first of the Ten Kings of Hell, whose First Court receives every soul for initial processing and routes it to the appropriate court.: Reference treatments of the Shiwang and of the First Court. (secondary)