Gozu Tennō (牛頭天王, lit. "Ox-Headed Heavenly King") is a syncretic Japanese deity of disease and healing. Originally imported to Japan from mainland Asia...
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origins), Gozu Tennō was widely revered since the Heian period as a god of pestilence, who both caused disease and cured them. Gozu Tennō became associated...
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Ox-Head and Horse-Face (redirect from Gozu and Mezu)
Statue of Horse-Face in Taiwan. Statue of Horse-face, Fengdu Ghost City. Gozu Tennō Alexiares and Anicetus, twin-sons of Heracles/Hercules and Hebe/Juventas;...
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Gion shinkō) is a Shinto cult. Originally it revolved solely around Gozu Tenno, but during the Separation of Shinto and Buddhism of the Meiji era the...
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are considered the three major festivals in Japan, worship the onryō of Gozu Tennō, Sugawara no Michizane, and Taira no Masakado, respectively, and pray...
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with nearly 400 paper lanterns, float down the Tenno River. The festival honors the deity Gozu Tenno. This festival also takes place in Tokyo. Shinagawa-ku...
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modern periods, Susanoo was popularly conflated with the pestilence deity Gozu Tennō, the god originally worshiped in Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, Hiromine Shrine...
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Gozu Tennō Sai (牛頭天王祭, "Gozu Tennō Festival")— a traditional festival held annually in July on Miyake Island since 1820 honoring the deity Gozu Tennō...
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twelve Hinomotoan clans serving Amaterasu, with his soul pact dragon Gozu Tennō and his kitsune disciple Kuzunoha. Seimei appears as an NPC in the video...
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motif. The motif is an amulet distributed by Yasaka Shrine to worship Gozu Tennō. Nakagawake kurusu (the cross of Nakagawa clan [ja]). The official mon...
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