Yin Jiao (deity)

Yin Jiao (Chinese: 殷郊 or Chinese: 殷交) is a Taoist deity of the star Taisui or of Jupiter, also named Taisui Xingjun (simplified Chinese: 太岁星君; traditional Chinese: 太歳星君), Taisaishin (Japanese: 太歳神), Yin Yuanshuai and Yin Tianjun. In Investiture of the Gods, he is the first son of the cruel King Zhou of Shang and the crown prince of the dynasty. Although King Zhou is a historical figure, Yin Jiao and Yin Hong [zh] are fictional characters. After being defeated by forces of Jiang Ziya, he is later enshrined by him as the god of Tai Sui. In a Ming dynasty work The Complete Work In Search of the Origins of the Deities of the Three Schools [zh], however, he sides with King Wu and kills the killer of his mother, Daji.

As Yin Jiao, he is often pictured as a six-armed and three-headed man with many skulls on his neck and a golden bell in his hand, Bell of Fallen Souls, whose sound makes the enemies' souls fall off.