Introduction to the Deities and Route for Pilgrimage

♦Sacred birth celebrated on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month ♦



General Tiger Lord is also called Major General Tiger Lord, Tiger Venerate Lord. The variation in the names indicate differences in worship. Tiger Lord is a worship of an animal spirit, and often the shrine and offerings are placed below the altar table, called the lower altar. His role is to guard against invasion by external spirits, and serves as one of guardian deities of Mountain Gates of the Holy Temple Shrine. The tiger banner and dragon banner must protect the censer when entering the temple to perform the incense and fire ceremony. Conflict and competition exist between the tiger and the dragon. In the household, the blue dragon is on the left, and the white tiger on the right; shrines to the gods have a dragon side and tiger side, and a distance must be maintained from the tiger side – as tigers would attack if approached. The Tiger should be offered unboiled water in worship, and not with tea.

♦Sacred birth celebrated on 8th day of the 2nd lunar month♦

The master deities that Horse Lord serves are mainly princes and masters of Dao with a military background. Among the temples in Taiwan today, there are few temples where the Horse Lord is worshipped except for temples dedicated to Princes (Millennium Lord, Qiansui). Horses are indispensable to military generals.