Facets of Daoism
Ching-lang Hou: "The Chinese Belief in Baleful Stars."
pp. 196-198 "Sending Off the Baleful Stars."
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p. 196 |
9 Lian stars (c^iu lian hsin) |
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pp. 196-7 |
5-Spirits Astral Lord (wu-kuei hsin-c^u:n) |
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p. 197 |
Caelestial Hound Astral Lord (t>ien-kou hsin-c^u:n) |
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White Tiger Astral Lord (pai-hu hsin-c^u:n) |
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p. 197, fn. 10 |
Caelestial Killers [&] Terrestrial Killers Astral Lords |
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Year Killer [&] Month Killer Astral Lords |
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Day Killer [&]Hour Killer Astral Lords |
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Yin Killer [&] Yan Killer Astral Lords |
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Mournful Killer [&] Happy Killer Astral Lords |
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Plundering Killer [&] Dream Spirits Astral Lords |
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Road-Forks [&] Crossroads Divine Killers |
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Mountain-Feet [&] Mountain-Summits Divine Killers |
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House-Rear [&] House-Front Divine Killers |
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On whom one stumbleth or treadeth Divine Killers |
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Whom one runneth against & seeth Divine Killers |
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Whom one scoldeth & bangeth Divine Killers |
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Whom one entwineth & tieth Divine Killers |
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Flying Soil Divine Killers |
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Of Tomb-Spirits [&] Tombs Divine Killers |
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Earthly 3 Divine Killers |
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Small Dead King [&] Great Dead King |
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Who pull out intestines [&] draw out the stomach Divine Killers |
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Who move about with the days Divine Killers |
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Whom one meeteth when one driveth in stakes and putteth up enclosures Divine Killers |
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Whom one meeteth when one moveth the bed, spreadeth the mosquito-net, and replaceth old matting Divine Killers |
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Whom one meeteth when one replaceth the old with the new and putteth the house in order Divine Killers |
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p. 197 |
Great Year (t>ai-sui) |
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Gate of Mourning (san-men) |
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p. 198 |
Official Spirit (kuan-kuei) |
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Death-Praesage (szu-fu) |
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Year-Ruin (sui-p>o) |
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Funeral Guest (tiao-k>e) |
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Sickness-Talisman (pin-fu) |
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Leopard-Tail (pao-wei) |
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Yellow Banners (huan-fan) |
p. 203 trip to the Invisible World, for ransoming souls from Great Year
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in mountains of Pitiless Mountain-Range |
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cobwebs have been woven by |
spiders |
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cry expressive of sadness, by |
partridge |
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successive gates into office of Great Year |
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1st gate, guarded by |
Gate of Mourning & Funeral Guest |
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2nd gate, guarded by |
Yellow Banners & Panther Tails |
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3rd gate, guarded by |
Man-Spirit & Robber Killer |
p. 203 invocation of officers of Great Year
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divinities |
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Great Year of the Current year, Venerable Divinity of Supreme Virtue |
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Marshall of the Great Year |
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Lady of the Year of the Right |
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Great General of the Yellow Banners |
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Great General of the Leopard-Tails |
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Vice-Envoy of the Fei-lien |
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Great General of the 7 Killers of Metal-Spirit |
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Great General of the Gate of Mourning |
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Great General of the Funeral Guest |
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Great General of the Talisman of Death |
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Great General of the Talisman of Sickness |
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Great General of the White Tiger of the Great Year |
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Divine Lord Ruin of the Year & Destruction of the Year |
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Divine Lord Pitiless Hound of Heaven |
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vassals of Great Year |
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Divine Lords of the 72 hou |
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Divine Lords of the 24 Breaths |
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Envoys of the Current Year, Who Spread Crises & Calamities |
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Great King, Spreader of Pestilence |
Holmes Welch & Anna Seidel (eds.): Facets of Taoism. Yale U Pr, New Haven, 1979.