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Visual depiction of Yanluo Wang

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Yanluo Wang

Chinese judge of the dead


enthroned in his court of hell reviewing the book of life and death, demons and magistrates flanking him as souls are judged

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 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.