Yanluo Wang
Chinese · deity · mythic · deity
The detail that makes this system Chinese rather than Indian is that he is fifth. A supreme god of death who is nonetheless the fifth of ten judges, reporting upward to a mountain's ministry and downward to clerks, is a bureaucracy's idea of death — appealable, documented, and staffed. The registry held the Buddhist and Hindu Yama and not the Chinese magistrate, which is the same shape of omission this programme found with Oshosi and the Cuban Ochosi, running the other way.
Domains
- death
- judgment
Relations
- subordinate to: Dongyue Dadi
- counterpart of: Yama
- companion: Qinguang Wang
Sources
- Reference treatments of Yanluo Wang, Diyu and the Ten Kings.