Mountain God | |||||||
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Chinese | 山神 | ||||||
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Vietnamese name | |||||||
Vietnamese alphabet | sơn thần thần núi | ||||||
Chữ Hán | 山神 | ||||||
Chữ Nôm | 神𡶀 | ||||||
Korean name | |||||||
Hangul | 산신 | ||||||
Hanja | 山神 | ||||||
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Kanji | 山の神 | ||||||
Kana | やまのかみ | ||||||
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Mountain Gods (山神) are Asian tutelary deities associated with mountains.[1] They are related to landlord deities and tudigongs and City Gods.
They are well-known in Korea and some prominent Chinese mountains have shrines to similar deities in the Daoist traditions, called Shanshen 山神. The Japanese equivalent is the Yama-no-Kami (山の神; also pronounced as yamagami) and the Vietnamese equivalent is Sơn thần (山神).[2][3]
Houtu is the overlord of all the Tudigongs ("Lord of Local Land"), Sheji ("the State"), Shan Shen ("God of Mountains"), City Gods ("God of Local City"), and landlord gods worldwide.
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