Shên. Name for gods, [103]
Shên Chên-jên. And T’ai Sui, [195]
“Shên Hsien Chuan.” Biographies of the Gods, by Ko Hung, [79]
Shên I. The Divine Archer Ch’ih-chiang Tzŭ-yü, [180]–[181] and the Emperor Yao, [180] sq. and Fei Lien, [181], [204]–[205]; shoots the nine false suns, [181]–[182]; marries the sister of the Water-spirit, [182]; canonized, [183]; builds a palace for Chin Mu, [183]–[184]; and the pill of immortality, [184]–[185]; kills Chisel-tooth, [184]; receives the sun-palace, [185]–[186]; and the Bird of Dawn, [186]–[187]; visits the moon, [187]–[188]
Shên Kung-pao. Meets Chiang Tzŭ-ya, [155]; tempts Chiang Tzŭ-ya to desert Chou, [155]; his power to separate his head from his body, [155]; discards his head, [156]; his head taken by Ancient Immortal of the South Pole, [156]–[157]; obtains his head again, [157]
Shên Lang. Hsü Chên-chün and, [223]–[224]
Shên Nung, or Ti Huang Shih. A legendary emperor, [81], [247]; and T’ai I, [143]; as God of Agriculture, [143], [165], [239]; as God of Fire (Huo Ti, Yen Ti), [239]; as God of Medicine, [247]
Shên Pao, or Lao Tzŭ. Third person of Taoist triad, [125]
Shên Shih. The Gentry; a social division, [28]
Shên Shu. A Door-god, [173]. See Mên Shên