"Daoism, Death, and Bureaucracy"
p. 119 poem "Summons of the Soul" by shaman Yan, in Songs of the South
in the cardinal directions (east, south, west, north) |
"There are giants there a thousand fathoms tall, who seek only for souls to catch, |
And ten suns that come out together, melting metal, dissolving stone." |
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[below, nadir] "the Land of Darkness, |
Where the Earth God [T'u po ..., the Lord of the Soil] lies, nine-coiled, with dreadful horns on his forehead, ... pursuing men ...: Three eyes he has in his tiger's head, and his body is like a bull's." |
afterdeath-deities (sequential)
p. 146 |
pp. 234 + 240 |
p. 298 |
p. 639 |
"GSW" |
BRRPS |
"IO" |
GPSP |
rulers ... of the 5 tombs |
General of the 5 Paths |
General of Assistance & Protection |
General of Assistance & Protection |
[2000 Bushel Officials beneath the soil] |
[2000 Bushel Officials] |
[2000 Bushel Officials] |
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Assistant of the Sepulchre |
Assistant of An-tu |
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Director of the Sepulchre |
King of Wu-I |
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Director of the Office That Ruleth Sepulchres |
Real Officials of Village & City |
[24 Prisons of Mt. T>ai] |
[24 Prisons of Mt. T>ai] |
Water Office of the Sire of the River |
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Hostel-Chief of the Gate of the Hun-Soul |
Inspector of the Gate of the Hun-Soul |
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Attack-Patrol of the Sepulchre |
Hostel-Chief of the Tomb-Gate |
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Commandant of the Mountains, Rivers, & Marshes |
[Officials & Chiefs in the Earth] |
[Officials & Chiefs in the Earth] |
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Envoys in Charge of Talismans |
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Assistant of the Mound |
Assistant of the Mound |
Assistant of the Mound |
Assistant of the Mound |
Sire of the Tomb |
Sire of the Tomb |
Sire of the Tomb |
Sire of the Tomb |
Subterrestrial 2000 Bushel Officials |
Subterrestrial 2000 Bushel Officials |
[Lord of Ts>an-lin; Lord of Wu-I] |
[Lord of Ts>an-lin; Lord of Wu-I] |
Marksman of the East of the Sepulchre |
[Envoy Who Descendeth to the Corpse] |
Marksman of the Sepulchre of Left |
Marksman of the Sepulchre of Left |
Sire of the West of the Sepulchre |
and of Right |
and of Right |
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[Lords & Clerks in Charge of Funerals] |
Director of Boundaries in the Earth |
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Special Minister for Subterrestrial Attacks |
Grave Minister's Official of tbe Right |
Grave Minister's Official of tbe Right |
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Squad-Chiefs of Hao-li |
in Hao-li |
Elders of Hao-li |
Elders of Hao-li |
powers of all earth-regions |
powers of all earth-regions |
"GSW" = "grave-securing writ" of the Latter Han dynasty
BRRPS = Breviary of Rules, Ritual, Praecepts, and Statutes Essential to Practice, by C^u Fa-man (CT 463, 15:14)
"IO" = "Invocation of Officials" by C^an Tao-lin, anthologized in the Concealed Instructions for Ascent to Perfection of T>ao Hun-c^in (5:21b)
GPSP = Great Petition for Sepulchral Plaints
astral deities of afterdeath realm (sequential)
p. 234 |
p. 308, fn. 68 |
p. 638 |
BRRPS |
MRPA |
GPSP |
Generals of Great Yan |
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and Great Year |
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Heavenly One; Earthly Two |
head of the god; feet of the god |
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first, middle, and last [months in each season] |
Annual Motion |
Motion of the Year |
Original Destiny |
Original Destiny |
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Greater Emptiness |
Great Year |
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Lesser Impoverishment |
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Killer of Catastrophes |
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Killers of Kalpa-s |
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Hooked Array |
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White Tiger [star] |
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Gods of the Twelve Hours |
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Numina of the Soil |
Kings of the Soil |
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Killers of the Soil |
MRPA = Master Red-Pine's Almanac (C^an-li 3:28)
poison-birds
p. 319 (C^an-li 6:19) |
comparative |
eyen of the living are s^en-tsun "life-ancestors"; eyen of the dead become daimones: |
cf. [Hellenic] the Harpuiai of the blind Phineus |
"They have feathers and can fly, and their wings and feet bear poison. |
[Skt.] vis. "poison", cf. vis. "bird" |
When they move they emit rays of light from the metal they hold in their mouths. ... |
[Mosan & Siberian] Raven-god used to keep the sun in his mouth |
East to west they follow the woof; north to south they ride the warp." |
[Norse] "weaving of the Valkyrja", by flying. Is [Hellenic] HARPuiai cognate with WARP? |
{Relatable is the belief in Borneo of the evil eyen of mourning spouses of the recently dead.}
Peter Samuel Nickerson: Taoism, Death, and Bureaucracy in Early Medieval China. PhD diss, U. of CA, 1996.