TYPE: Supreme god
ORIGIN: Taoist (Chinese)
INFORMATION: He achieved paramount prominence during the Sung Dynasty and the Jade Emperor is his earthly, mortal incarnation. As a deity he is remote and out of touch with ordinary people. No iconography is applied to him and he has no physical description. He engendered the universe from chaos and is the unifying principle of the cosmos, which is perceived to be divided into thirty-six heavens above the earth. Also Shang Ti; Shang Di.