San tou liu bi is an
iconographic style, especially used in
Taoist
religious art, in which a certain deity is depicted with three heads
and six arms (fig.),
to indicate his or her great power, such as of
this
mawang or ‘horse-royal’,
a warrior-deity associated with both the
Mazu (fig.)
and
Shuicao (fig.),
Chinese gods that serve as the protectors of horses (fig.).
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