Among all the warrior deities in the Taoist pantheon, he is the only one who manages to defeat and capture Sun Wukong when the latter rebels against Heaven. The Tiger Vanguard (虎先鋒) is a minion of the ...

In Chinese folk religion, the register of deities was left by the primordial goddess Nüwa before her acceptance of parinirvāṇa (death). The register includes 365 gods among the Eight Divisions of ...

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“I’m indecisive, so sometimes I ask deities to help me,” she said. Online oracle consultation services launched by Taoist temples have surged in popularity in Taiwan over the past five years, ...

The deities are considered to be the offspring of the Taoist goddess Doumu. On a weekend, just over a week before the festival, Madam Felicia Tey and her four children huddled in a corner of the ...

The festival, known as Kaw Ong Ya (in Hokkien here), celebrates the return of the nine emperor gods. According to Taoist belief, the nine deities were the sons of Zhou Yu Dou Fu Yuan Jun, also known ...

All in all, there are nine golden dragons on the float to represent the Nine Emperor Gods, which are Taoist deities predating the arrival of Buddhism in China. Khor said the design of the float ...

A world-renowned Taoist vegetarian festival in Thailand has ... to purify their bodies before offering them to deities. The event, which generated more than nine billion baht ($272 million ...

81 million adults), according to the 2018 CFPS survey. It should be noted that such larger figures include those who also believe in one or more non-Christian deities, such as Buddha, 'immortals' ...