Erlang Shen

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title: Erlang Shen
text: Erlang Shen, or simply Erlang, is a god in Chinese folk religion and Daoism, associated with water, warriorhood, hunting, and demon subdual. He is commonly depicted as a young man with a third, truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead, wielding a three-pronged spear, and being accompanied by his loyal hunting dog, Xiaotian Quan. The origin of Erlang is complex. He is most commonly believed to be the deification of Li Erlang, the second son of Li Bing, a hydraulic engineer of the Qin dynast
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description: Deity in the Chinese pantheon
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_Shen
date created: 2004-04-16T18:38:59Z
date modified: 2024-09-13T23:39:06Z
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