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Chapter 404

Chapter 404

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Obviously, the so-called Heavenly Sovereign naturally did not refer to a certain two-character character from a certain two-character game. The Shang Dynasty divided deities into two major categories: one consisted of natural deities such as Heaven, Earth, and Nuwa, while the other comprised ancestral deities. Every family had its own ancestral deity. As the ancestral deity of the royal lineage—namely, the deceased Kings of Shang—they served as the ancestral deities of the entire Shang state, and thus bore a much nobler title: the Sovereign. Titles such as Di Wuding and Di Shangtang were bestowed only posthumously.

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