Mountain & Sea Deities / 058
God of the 11th Central Mt. Range, Hé
中十一禾山神
Background
The god of Mount Hé receives a full animal offering and a jade disc in the described rites.
An editorial reading of the card’s subject. Legendary properties belong to the story.
Classical text
Mountains & Seas · Central Mountains
Read the full source paragraph
The first Jīng [荊] range, from Mount Yìwàng [翼望] to Mount Jǐ [几], comprises forty-eight mountains and extends 3,732 li. Its gods all have pig bodies and human heads. Their rites require a cock offered in prayer, a jade tablet buried, and the finest of the five grains. Mount Hé [禾] is an imperial mountain: its rite requires the full animal sacrifice, presented and buried with the animals inverted, together with a jade disk; the cattle are not fixed in number or kind. Mounts Dǔ [堵] and Yù [玉] are chief mountains. Their sacrifices are all inverted, using the lesser animal offering, with fine jade suspended.From the English edition of Mountains & Seas. Open the reader for the Chinese editions and translator’s notes. Linked names follow the card catalogue; hover to see the original wording.
Passage printed on the card
禾山，帝也，其祠：太牢之具，羞瘗，倒毛；用一璧，牛无常。Game card text
Giant, Cunning, Cannot Wield
Counts as a Pig and a Human.
Offering: 1❂ + X Creatures (where X is no more than 3).
Gain +X/+X.
The game’s adaptation, transcribed from the supplied card file. The image preserves coloured symbols and the printed layout.