Yulü
Chinese · deity · mythic · deity
THE OLDEST DOOR GODS, AND THE CORPUS HAD NO DOOR GODS AT ALL. They guard the ghost gate on the peach tree, which is why peachwood charms and then paper prints of the pair went on Chinese doors for two thousand years.
Domains
- the gate
- the peach tree
- inspection of the dead
Relations
- door god pair with: Shenshu
Sources
- Reference treatment of Shenshu and Yulü, the door gods: Shenshu and Yulü stand upon a giant peach tree that twists and coils as far as three thousand li; at the tree's north-east is the ghost gate, where the two gods inspect the transit of countless dead spirits, and those of evil deeds they bind with reed rope and feed to tigers.