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Chinese traditional religious cosmology of the Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Forms of the Highest Deity") with the Yellow Deity (the Four-Faced God) at the centre of the universe, emanating the other four cosmological deities of directions and seasons.

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DescriptionShangdi-Huangdi religious cosmology.png	Chinese traditional religious cosmology of the Wǔfāng Shàngdì (五方上帝 "Five Forms of the Highest Deity") with the Yellow Deity (the Four-Faced God) at the centre of the universe, emanating the other four cosmological deities of directions and seasons.
Date	2015
Source	Own reproduction of the scheme found at p. 121 of The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society (1997) by Xiaochun Sun and Jacob Kistemaker.
Author	Aethelwolf Emsworth.

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