Diyu / Five-Level Skeleton
Diyu Overview.
Here Diyu stands as its own section alongside Heaven: underworld systems, institutions, offices, matching figures and underworld places are modeled separately. The Heaven section keeps only the 'underworld-salvation interface'; the full Diyu system unfolds here.
Source Layers
The ancient-myth, Daoist-pantheon, Buddhist-underworld, vernacular-novel, folk-belief and modern-compilation layers are each marked, never merged into a single canon.
Diyu path
Click from underworld system down to figures and places.
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Underworld systems
Underworld institutions
Underworld offices
Matching figures
Related places
Recommended entries
Start with these Diyu paths.
Ten-Courts judgement system
The Ten Courts, Yanluo, the judges, the Mirror of Retribution and the soul-judgement process.
Reincarnation system
Naihe Bridge, Meng Po's Pavilion, the River of Forgetfulness, the Six Paths of rebirth and reincarnation assignment.
Soul-summoning & escort system
Black and White Wuchang, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the ghost-runners, the Ghost Gate and the Road of the Yellow Springs.
Deliverance & salvation system
Taiyi the Savior, Donghua of the East, Ksitigarbha's salvation, the Yellow-Register Rite and the Water-and-Land Rite.