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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
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.