Let's Talk About Toilet Deities

[JustGeorge]

I knew China had Zigu, but apparently, toilet deities exist in other cultures, too.

In case you didn't catch Zigu on Lets Talk About Chinese Folk Religion , Zigu was a deity of bathrooms in Chinese folk religion. She was originally a woman who was a concubine of a man with a jealous wife. She was killed by this wife while using the bathroom one night.

She was deified, and now oversees not only bathrooms, but those forgotten in oppressive situations.

Do you know of any toilet deities?

 

[rocala]

toilet deities exist in other cultures, too.

After a very heavy night of ale imbibing, people were sometimes seen praying at the porcelain altar.

 

[JustGeorge]

After a very heavy night of ale imbibing, people were sometimes seen praying at the porelain altar.

I actually read a bit that Zigu caused a man to worship in that manner for awhile, after he had made amorous advances toward her in a disguised form(he did not recover).

 

[The Hammer]

"In New Zealand, the atua – the gods and spirits of the Māori people – were believed to focus on the village latrine. If a warrior experienced sickness or faintness of heart or carried out an activity regarded as tapu, he would retreat to the latrine and bite its structure. The gods were said to frequent the latrine in large numbers and excrement was regarded as the food of the dead.[13] Biting the latrine was said to transfer the tapu quality that the biter had acquired back to its origins in the world of the gods. The practice of biting to transfer mana or tapu was seen in other areas of Māori life, such as a son biting his dead father's penis to acquire his powers, or a student weaver biting part of the loom to acquire tapu to assist with learning how to weave cloth.[14]"

Thanks wiki

 

[JustGeorge]

A friend found on Google:

"The Ainu people of far northern Japan and the Russian Far East believed that the Rukar Kamuy, their version of a toilet god, would be the first to come to help in the event of danger. In the Ryukyu Islands (including Okinawa Islands), the fuuru nu kami, or "toilet god", is the family protector of the area of waste"

 

[Viker]

The Father often rules from a porcelain (fine bone) throne.