"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." |
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5, of the Three Platforms |
fn. 52 "a set of stairs" |
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45 |
attaching |
p. 46 "who aligns and tallies": p. 46, fn. 53 "sworn alliance between master and disciple" |
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46 |
5, of the Three Offices |
"to ascertain people's offenses." |
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3 killers |
"amongst the clouds" |
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5, with the 5 colored thearchs of directions |
"slaughter ... domestic animals and emit oddities of light." |
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4 killers = "nameless" colored-thearchs |
"(They have names, even though they are [characterized as] nameless.)" [cf. p. 91] |
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murderer, in the Northern Dipper [constellation] |
"dresses like a raven and is 7000" c^an tall |
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46-47 |
7 murderers, in the Dipper-handle [constellation] |
are 9 c^an tall "and have red headwraps." |
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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." |
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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." |
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often praesided over by the Heavenly Thearch |
"During the night ..., it descends to listen to ... conversations." |
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of the 5 Marchmounts |
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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 |
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beds |
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sound of drums |
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tall man |
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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 |
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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 |
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damones of locales |
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87 |
"Place of Burnt Offering" |
terrestrial |
"Passing Through the Kitchen" |
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"Jade Transverse" |
extraterrestrial (constellations) |
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"Horn" |
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pleasant daemones |
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87 |
"Playmate" |
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"Happiness" |
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88 |
"Warm-hearted Gentleman of the Underworld" |
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"Love" |
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"Uncle of Peace" |
pair of relative-names |
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"Peaceful Uncle" |
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"Worthy as a Son" |
another pair of relative-names |
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"As a Worthy Son" |
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"Fruit Seed" |
"diminutive" |
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[example of sequence of daemones] |
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89 |
C^ia-tzu |
snake-dragon |
"Raise by Hook" |
fox |
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"Earthly Calamity" |
sea-turtle |
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"Heavenly Calamity" |
death by exposure |
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"True Result" |
death by injury |
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(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.