Ox-Head and Horse-Face
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ox-head-and-horse-face-180-3658531
title:
Ox-Head and Horse-Face
text:
Ox-Head and Horse-Face are two guardians or types of guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology. As indicated by their names, both have the bodies of men, but Ox-Head has the head of an ox while Horse-Face has the face of a horse. They are the first beings a dead soul encounters upon entering the underworld; in many stories they directly escort the newly dead to the underworld.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Underworld guardians in Asian mythology
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox-Head_and_Horse-Face
date created:
2004-01-13T17:01:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T07:23:19Z
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