What's the difference between the legendary sun god and the jade emperor?

There are three sun gods in Greek mythology, but the real sun god is Helius.

The earliest one is Hyperion, one of the twelve titans. He is the son of Uranus and Kaya, and the conductor of light and sunlight is the embodiment of the original sun sphere.

The second one, Helius, is the real sun god driving a solar car.

He is the son of Hyperion and Thea, and the brother of Selene and Leona. He is the embodiment and personification of the sun, and Helius is a tall, handsome and unnecessary handsome man, wearing a purple robe and a radiant golden crown. Every day, he drives four fire horse solar cars across the sky, bringing light to the world. He has many lovers and children. One of his lovers, Calea, became a sunflower, and his famous son, Phaeton, died driving a solar car. But in later myths, some poets confused him with Apollo, the god of art, so many things about him became Apollo.

The third Apollo, he is god of light.

Apollo was the son of Zeus and his sixth wife, Leto, the goddess of the night. At first, the day after Leto got pregnant, Hera flew into a rage and brutally persecuted Leto. Poor Leto had to hide and wander around. Later, Leto finally found a hiding island in the Aegean Sea-Adelos Island. This is a floating island, often floating on the sea. Here, Leto first gave birth to themis, the goddess of hunting and midwifery, and later gave birth to Apollo, the god of art, with the help of themis. The full name of Apollo is Phoebus Apollo, and Phoebus means "bright and brilliant".

Apollo is regarded as the god in charge of literature and art, the patron saint of mankind, god of light, the god of prophecy, the god of eloquence, the patron saint of immigrants and navigators, the god of medicine, and the god of disaster relief and refuge. Born in the floating island of Telo in Astoria. He was mixed with Helius and was also considered as the sun god.

The sun god in China mythology

Ho, the name of the mother of the sun god in China mythology. Legend has it that she is the wife of the emperor, and she gave birth to ten sons with him, all of whom are the sun. They live in the hibiscus tree in the East China Sea and take turns to be on duty in the sky. Xi He is also the driver of her sons-the messenger of the sun-Yu Ri. Later, ten brothers were dissatisfied with the order and came out on the 10th. Nine of them were shot by Hou Yi.

The sun, the spirit of the sun in Han mythology, is a three-legged crow. There are ten crows. They live on the hibiscus tree in the East China Sea, and their mother He rises from the hibiscus tree in turn, and passes through the mountain like, Zengquan, Sangye, Yuzhong, Kunwu Mountain, Bird Mountain, Sad Valley, Nuwa,, Sad Spring and Yuyuan Garden.

Dong Jun, a deity in ancient Chu mythology in China. The seventh poem in the famous poem "Nine Songs" by Chu poet Qu Yuan is called "Dong Jun". There have been different opinions about the God of Dong Jun. It is generally believed that Dong Jun refers to the sun god, but there is also a moon god. The God of the East Emperor Taiyi praised in the first chapter of Nine Songs seems to be more obvious as the God of the sun, so Dong Jun is the East Emperor Taiyi.

The Jade Emperor lives in Qiu Yuqing Palace, whose full name is "Heaven, Heaven, Golden Que, Supreme Nature, Milla to the True Jade Emperor". According to the textual research on the similarities and differences of the sacred names of the Jade Emperor, "The sacred names of the Jade Emperor were highly respected in the Middle Ages before the robbery. The Lord of the world is good at Taoism and feels mysterious, and everyone has his own knowledge. Everyone's faith will be revealed, and the names of the gods will be respected to determine the title. There are four Jade Emperors: one is Qiu Jade Emperor, the other is Qiu Yuanxing, the other is Brahma Jade Emperor, the third is Jade Emperor and the third is Han Ai Emperor. Four Wei Zi Yu Di, Han Guang Di went, and then served as a bugle. None of them are jade emperors. This jade emperor, the heavenly golden valve, is supreme and natural. It is said that the mysterious the king of world is the jade emperor, killing the sky and destroying the land, and it will never be destroyed. " Won his belief, because of the ancient religion, in ancient times, there were the supreme gods "Emperor" and "God" who dominated the natural changes such as the sun, the moon, the wind and rain, and the fate of human life such as fortune, life and death, and auspicious days. After the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was also called "Emperor Heaven", "Haotian" and "Emperor Heaven". Tao Hongjing in the Southern Dynasties already had the titles of "Jade Emperor Dao Jun" and "Jade Emperor Gao" in the True Spiritual Industry Map, ranking 1 1 9 on the right side of the Jade Qing Sanyuan Palace. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the belief of "Jade Emperor" prevailed widely. Bai Juyi, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Dream Fairy", "Pay tribute to the Jade Emperor and sincerely look forward to it". There is also a sentence "I am the history of the Jade Emperor's incense table" in Yuan Zhen's poem "Praise Lotte with the Prefecture". An important Taoist classic, The Jade Emperor's Classic of Shang Gao, written around the Tang and Song Dynasties, describes the origin and origin of the Jade Emperor in detail: a long time ago, there was a beautiful and wonderful country, King Jingde and Queen Bao were old and childless, so the Taoist priest prayed. After the dream, the Taoist priest held a baby for the queen and woke up pregnant. One year pregnant, born in the palace at noon on the ninth day of the first month of the third month. When the prince grew up and succeeded to the throne, he soon gave up his country and went to Yanshan, Puming Township to practice Buddhism, and then turned over. It took 3,000 robberies to prove Jin Xian. More than 100 million robberies, just to prove the Jade Emperor. Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu (1008-1kloc-0/7) is eight years old (1 105), and the imperial edict of the Jade Emperor is "Li Yu, the symbol of Tai Shang Huang Tian Kai, contains the true body of the Jade Emperor". Song Huizong Zheng He (111118) lived for six years (116), and the Jade Emperor honored him as.

Taoism believes that the Jade Emperor is the king of the gods, occupying a very high position in the Taoist hierarchy and possessing the greatest theocracy. According to the Taoist scriptures, he lived in Milla Palace, a beautiful and majestic palace with supreme Buddhism. He controls the heavens, commands the saints in an all-round way, dominates the universe, educates the heavens, practices heaven, spreads the virtues of heaven, creates everything, helps people, weighs the three realms and controls all souls, but has infinite dimensions. He is the highest god in the sky and the emperor of ten thousand days. In short, Taoism believes that the Jade Emperor is in charge of all the yin and yang fortunes of the three realms (heaven, earth and air), the ten squares (four directions, four dimensions, up and down), the four lives (viviparous, oviparous, wet and metaplasia) and the six meridians (heaven, man, demon, hell beast and hungry ghost).

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Jade Emperor personally went to the lower boundary of the Holy Land to inspect the situation of all parties. Reward good and punish evil according to the good and evil of all beings. The ninth day of the first month is the Christmas of the Jade Emperor, commonly known as the Jade Emperor's Club. It is said that all the immortals in heaven and earth will celebrate this day grandly, and the Jade Emperor will return to Lu 'an and Tiangong on the afternoon of his birthday. At that time, a grand celebration ceremony will be held in the Taoist temple.

Note: The Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager are not husband and wife.

Typical, incarnation

The Jade Emperor is the embodiment of Sanqing. Sanqing and the Jade Emperor are like nothingness before splendor, infinity before Tai Chi, inaction before action. Therefore, the Jade Emperor is the master of the three talents, and has always upheld the heaven and mastered the balance between heaven and earth. The Jade Emperor sent Wei Zi North Pole Emperor to take charge of the latitude and longitude of heaven and earth, and Gou Chen Shanggong Emperor to take charge of the three talents of heaven and earth, and the soldiers rotated among the masters. After the distribution, the local tyrant took charge of the fertility of Yin and Yang and the mountains and rivers of the earth. Everything in heaven and earth, everything in yin and yang, is in the hands of the jade emperor.