In 1951, the Board of Trustees of the City God Temple was dissolved, and the temple was handed over to the Shanghai Taoist Association and made into a Taoist center.
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Both bring a chicken to their local temple which is often the temple of their local city god; the individuals then proclaims an oath of innocence while standing before their god.
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She was distraught and so forced Wang to conduct a chicken-beheading ritual with her at the temple of the city god in Dongshan to determine who was telling the truth.
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It seems more likely that some kind of cult-vessel is meant, and other suggestions have included " the lion-statue of its beloved ", meaning the city god.
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With a supreme deity-an Emperor ( Jade Emperor or Heavenly God ) Local Officials ( City gods ) Commoners ( gods of the hearth ) ( pg . 326 ).
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Klong Luang, The Canal Bridge, gold The central pool flowing canals South side via the Phanat Nikhom district and Wat Koh Kaew came to the Eastern old city God called Canal city.
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The great city Gods of the Sumerians originated in the distant haze of pre-Historic times, and many a Ziggurat has survived to leave indelible clues for those trained in reading those signs.
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He inherited a proposal from his predecessor to convert the Guangzhou City god temple, which he saw as a relic of a superstitious and backward era, into a secular facility to promote the consumption of goods produced in Guangdong.
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It is believed by some scholars that the name of Jerusalem comes from Uru + Shalem, meaning the foundation of Shalem or founded by Shalem or city of Shalem, and that Shalem was the city god of the place before El Elyon.
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Over the course of its evolution as a religion, Taoism developed an extensive pantheon of gods whose positions often mirrored those of secular officials; thus many Chinese cities to this day have a temple dedicated to the City God, the heavenly equivalent of a mayor.
