Eastern Mythology Encyclopedia
Devils Forged by Obsession
古神话之执念成劫的魔
A volume on beings warped by fixation, resentment, hunger, ambition, and unresolved ruin. Here evil is rarely pure; it is forged from obsession hard enough to survive its own destruction.
Devils Forged by Obsession enters the territories where desire curdles into catastrophe. The figures collected here are not simply villains in the moral sense. They are beings shaped by fixation so intense that it remakes body, soul, and destiny around a single wound, hunger, vow, or refusal. Some pursue power until power hollows them out. Some cling to grief until grief becomes identity. Some are born from corruption; others become monstrous by refusing to release what should have ended long ago. This volume is concerned with the mythic logic of spiritual distortion: how will becomes curse, how passion becomes engine, how persistence becomes doom. If other volumes ask how beings rise, rule, or survive, this one asks what remains when the self is consumed by one overwhelming necessity. The answer is rarely noble, often magnificent, and always dangerous.
Entries
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Entry Range
0001-0100
Rahu
罗睺-rahu
Ketu
计都-ketu
Immortal Yangmei
扬眉大仙-yangmei-daxian
Daoist Time
时辰道人-shichen-daoren
Ancestor Minghe
冥河老祖-minghe-laozi
Mara
波旬-mara
Brahma
大梵天-brahma
Desire-Form Heaven
欲色天-yuse-tian
Shiva
湿婆-shiva
Umo, the Heavenly Concubine
天妃乌摩-tianfei-wumo
Silver Sprite
银灵子-yinlingzi
Kuafu
夸父-kuafu
Jiang Chen
将臣-jiangchen
Hanba
旱魃-hanba
Ying Gou
赢勾-yinggou
Hou Qing
后卿-houqing
Youquan Blood Demon
幽泉血魔-youquanxuemof
Lvpao Laozu
绿袍老祖-lvpaolaozu
Xuanyuan Fawang
轩辕法王-xuanyuanfawang
Yinshi Wang
阴蚀王-yinshi-wang
Xue Shen Zi
血神子-xue-shen-zi
Sha Shen Tongzi
沙神童子-sha-shen-tongzi
Dulong Zunzhe
毒龙尊者-dulongzunzhe
Jiu Pan Po
鸠盘婆-jiu-pan-po
Chi Shi Shen Jun
赤尸神君-chi-shi-shen-jun
Bai Gu Shen Jun
白骨神君-bai-gu-shen-jun
Ma Yuan
马元-ma-yuan
Inner Demon (Xin Mo)
心魔-xin-mo
Heavenly Demon (Tian Mo)
天魔-tian-mo