Deities of Taiwan
Taiwanese religion does not come from a single source. Taoist, Buddhist, Hoklo folk, Hakka and Indigenous traditions have shared this island for centuries. 52 deities, grouped into five traditions.
The Jade Emperor, Mazu, Guan Yu — the gods Taiwanese people pray to on an ordinary day.
- Mazu (Goddess of the Sea)
- Guan Sheng Di Jun (Lord Guan)
- Earth God (Tu Di Gong)
- Jade Emperor (Yu Huang Da Di)
- Yue Lao (Old Man Under the Moon)
- City God (Cheng Huang)
- God of Wealth (Cai Shen)
- Wenchang Dijun (God of Culture and Literature)
- Baosheng Dadi (Great Emperor of Life Protection)
- Xuantian Shangdi (Supreme Emperor of Dark Heaven)
- Confucius
- Ji Gong (Mad Monk)
- Queen Mother of the West (Xi Wangmu)
- Lü Dongbin (Patriarch Lü)
- Tai Sui (Grand Duke Jupiter)
Guanyin, Kshitigarbha, the Medicine Buddha — enshrined in monasteries and home altars alike.
Tudigong, the City God, the door gods — guardians of the village and of the doorway.
The Three Mountain Kings, the Yimin martyrs, Bogong — the belief system of Hakka townships.
Atayal utux, the Paiwan hundred-pacer, Ali ancestral spirits — the island of Taiwan before Han settlement.
Every god was once a person. These long-form stories are about the part before they became gods.