"Feminine Verdure"

pp. 42-48 register of daemones

p.

dir. from Mt. T>ai

"__ Daemon"

nature

42

S.E.

High Heaven, 10,000 C^an

"to which the dead all return from the waters of the Tao." [p. 43 36,000 year-daemones]

43

N.W.

of the 3 Elders of the Southern Countryside

p. 44 "manages the register of all the dead. ... He only deals with documents."

45

 

Great Headless Daemon Among the Clouds

"of destroyed armies and dead generals."

   

5, of the Three Platforms

fn. 52 "a set of stairs"

45

 

attaching

p. 46 "who aligns and tallies": p. 46, fn. 53 "sworn alliance between master and disciple"

46

 

5, of the Three Offices

"to ascertain people's offenses."

   

3 killers

"amongst the clouds"

   

5, with the 5 colored thearchs of directions

"slaughter ... domestic animals and emit oddities of light."

   

4 killers = "nameless" colored-thearchs

"(They have names, even though they are [characterized as] nameless.)" [cf. p. 91]

   

murderer, in the Northern Dipper [constellation]

"dresses like a raven and is 7000" c^an tall

46-47

 

7 murderers, in the Dipper-handle [constellation]

are 9 c^an tall "and have red headwraps."

47

 

chief killer, in Grand Monad

"has no form and no name. He stands" 1 c^an & 6 c^>ih "tall, wears a red headwrap and red clothes."

   

of Heaven's Three and Five

"who judges and kills is" 1 c^an & 7 c^>ih "tall, wears white clothes and a red headwrap and points a halberd at people."

   

often praesided over by the Heavenly Thearch

"During the night ..., it descends to listen to ... conversations."

   

of the 5 Marchmounts

 
   

60

"each aligned with a day in the sixty-day Chinese cycle" [p. 48 "have ... red body hair instead of clothes. They have ears but no eyes and can fly long distances."]

p. 51 [Some] "people have heard of [evil] demons but think there are no [good] spirits." [There are, however,] "more than 36,000 [good] spirits ..."

p. 51 constellations of death & of life

constellations

death

life

"__ Dipper"

Northern

Southern

other

Heaven's Handle

the Three Platforms

p. 75 the Three Platforms constellation is re-invoked

p. 56 transformations

a __

is transformed into a __

1000-year-old tree

man

100-year-old stone

little girl

p. 57 -- 80 daemones, essences of:

1st

mountain

2nd

wood

3rd

stone

4th

tiger

5th

snake

6th

hound

7th

monkey

8th

fox

others include:

well

stove

beds

sound of drums

tall man

1000-year-old with white bones

p. 70 animal-deities ruling the directions

direction

animal

east

green dragon

west

white tiger

south

vermilion bird

north

murky parrot

centre

yellow unicorn

various daemones

p.

Daemon

nature

     

daemones of substances

58

of Great Harmony

is merely a bodiless head, spitting clouds; will expose [to thieves] hiding-place of traveller

83

"Gentleman Sword Master"

knife

 

"Patterned Net"

pillar wood

     

damones of locales

87

"Place of Burnt Offering"

terrestrial

 

"Passing Through the Kitchen"

 

"Jade Transverse"

extraterrestrial (constellations)

 

"Horn"

     

pleasant daemones

87

"Playmate"

 
 

"Happiness"

 

88

"Warm-hearted Gentleman of the Underworld"

 
 

"Love"

 
 

"Uncle of Peace"

pair of relative-names

 

"Peaceful Uncle"

 

"Worthy as a Son"

another pair of relative-names

 

"As a Worthy Son"

 

"Fruit Seed"

"diminutive"

     

[example of sequence of daemones]

89

C^ia-tzu

snake-dragon

 

"Raise by Hook"

fox

 

"Earthly Calamity"

sea-turtle

 

"Heavenly Calamity"

death by exposure

 

"True Result"

death by injury

 

(ending in) 36

(none of which have names at all)

Thomas H. Peterson: The Demon Statute of Feminine Verdure. M.A. thesis, IN U., 1992.