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Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Thunder-god. Ottered to him in accordance with the ritual of the Chowdynasty. He holds a bowl of water, and if he lets fallonly a drop, there is a rainfall of one foot. The Masterof Rain rides a white horse over the western sea, followedby twelve boys, and wherever he goes there is rain. Thunder and Lightning.—The gods in this depart-*ment are so numerous as to constitute a distinct Board,called The Board of Thunder. The majesty and wrathof the gods are summed up in these tokens of Heavens 74 The Dragon, Image, and Denton, displeasure, and the thunders roar and lightnings flashare witnesses to the people that there are gods above thesky. Jupiter tonans. The principal god of thunder is Wenl^aisze, a ministerof the Emperor Show, who was killed by General Kiang.We sometimes ask the people, Who was it that governed
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Mr. and Mrs. Thunder. thunder before his day ? This has never seemed to occurto them. His birthday is on the 24th of the 6th Moon,at which time all the country people flock to his temple.They observe a fast in his honour from the 1st to the24th of the 6th Moon. He has three eyes,—one in hisforehead,—and rides upon a tiger. Another pair of gods are Mr. and Mrs. Thunder, who The Adoration of Nature, 75 control the artillery of Heaven, and flash the vividlightning. Madam Lightning is also a dread deity, who holds thelightning in her hand. She has 10,000 golden snakes,who flash electricity throughout the universe. The purplelightning kills, the red lightning lessens heat, and thewhite lightning diminishes wind and rain. Her chiefassistant is called Teihlin, and her charioteer Ah-hyiang. The snow-god.—His name is Tunluh. A princefond of hunting goes to the forest for game. A giantasks the beasts, Would you prefer to die by the knife orby an arrow ? An aged deer begs the giant to save

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