King Father of the East
deity sky Chinese single tradition · 3
The King Father of the East, also called the Sovereign of the Eastern Florescence, is a celestial being associated with the eastern direction and the flourishing of life.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 106 CE
- Attested period
- 106 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Earliest notation appears on a bronze mirror cast in 106 CE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Six Heavenly Ministers, Old Man of the South Pole, Heavenly Lord of Supreme Oneness and Salvation from Misery, Yanluo Wang, Tàihào, Wufang Shangdi, Dongyue Emperor
- allied with
- Queen Mother of the West
- sibling of
- Mountain Dongyue Dadi
- child of
- Pure and the Holy Mother of Origins
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“King Father of the East”
#21139 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the King Father of the East, also called the Sovereign of the Eastern Florescence”
#21342 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“When the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu) was a mountain demon, she was in love with the King Father of the East (Dongwanggong). Xiwangmu ruled the west and Dongwanggong ruled the east. In some versions of the Chinese creation myth, the two lovers created humanity through their union.”
#21350 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001