Mountain God

Mountain God
A Korean representation of a sanshin
Chinese name
Chinese	山神
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin shānshén
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	sơn thần thần núi
Chữ Hán	山神
Chữ Nôm	神𡶀
Korean name
Hangul	산신
Hanja	山神
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Sansin McCune–Reischauer Sanshin
Japanese name
Kanji	山の神
Kana	やまのかみ
Transcriptions Romanization Yama no Kami

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.