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RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY

 

 

 

  Bi Gan

 

China

Bi Gan a Chinese civilian official who was killed cruelly by taking his heart out, yet survived after drinking the Elixir of Immortality, i.e. the herbal medicine prepared by the Jade Rabbit that lives on the moon (fig.), and consequently became a civilian wealth deity (fig.).