I don't know much on the topic. I'd like to know more.
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Lets Talk About Chinese Folk Religion
- Thread starter JustGeorge
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Jimmy
King Phenomenon
I just read a little bit about a few of them. Pretty neat. Moon god, earth god, kitchen god haha. A three eyed god who sees truth. A god that can turn into a dragon. A god that can talk to ghosts Etc.
Same. I wonder who they are.
I remember reading about Zigu, the toilet goddess once. A tragic figure, who, if my understanding is right, came to represent women in oppressive situations.
She is sometimes petitioned for fortune telling reasons on the last day of the Lunar New Year.
Got any stories of them?
I'm pretty oblivious too their practices as well:
en.m.wikipedia.org
Chinese folk religion - Wikipedia
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Zao Jun the kitchen god or stove god reports once a year to pin yin the god of heaven on the activities of every household. Each household is punished or rewarded accordingly.
The story is kind of funny how this came into being. I guess a Chinese man left his wife for a younger woman and as punishment the heavens blinded him. Then one day he wandered into his old wife’s house begging for food. She cooked him a meal. He told her of what happened, and she gave his eyesight back. When he saw who she was he threw himself into the fireplace out of shame. The only thing the woman could salvage was his leg, and she made a shrine above the fireplace with it. To this day fire pokers by the fireplace are referred to as Zhang Langs leg.
Why was he so upset to see her?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Funny you just asked. I re-read what I wrote before I saw what you asked here and I put in the word shame when he saw her. So that’s the reason why he was upset. he felt ashamed of what he did to his wife. She cured him after he told her how sorry he was over what he did. He was unaware it was her because he was blind
Interesting story!
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
@JustGeorge
Too bad he didn’t forgive himself. But then again we wouldn’t have his mythos.
Too bad he didn’t forgive himself. But then again we wouldn’t have his mythos.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
It is actually
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
I’ll have to read up on this throne goddess lol
The more I read of her, the more my heart went out to her.
Interesting to note she was first human as well.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
I just read up on that toilet goddess. That was pretty interesting too. I guess people make a doll of her and pray to it once an year and they tell the doll that the married couple wasn’t around and that the goddess could come out and be safe. I guess Japan has their own version of a toilet god that protects them from falling in the toilet and drowning. There’s quite a few different versions of toilet gods from various cultures around the world.
That's pretty cool! I didn't know Japan had a bathroom deity, too.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
The article I was reading was about different toilet gods. I think there was one in New Zealand if I’m not mistaken
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Oh and Ancient Rome too
I made a new thread for toilet deities.
