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Visual depiction of The Ten Kings of Hell

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

The Ten Kings of Hell

Chinese bureaucratic judges of the afterlife


ten robed magistrates in ten courts, weighing the life records of every soul that passes through

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
death

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.