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Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but which current scientific evidence does not support, nor the reasons for the claims.
In Japan, Fukurokuju (福禄寿; from Japanese fuku, "happiness"; roku, "wealth"; and ju, "longevity") is one of the Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese mythology. [1] It has been theorized that he is a Japanese assimilation of the Chinese Three Star Gods (Fu Lu Shou) embodied in one deity.
Longevity myths include generic traditions about supercentenarian human longevity, as well as incompletely validated specific longevity claims, such as those lacking birth or death dates or arising from within a generic tradition. Traditions also include "diets, drugs, alchemy, physical practices, and certainly also mental states" that have ...
Jurōjin with deer Japanese god of longevity Jurojin. Netsuke. Jurōjin (寿老人, "Old Man of Longevity") is one of Japanese mythology's Seven Gods of Fortune or Shichifukujin. He is the god of longevity. [1] [2] Jurōjin originated from the Chinese Taoist god, the Old Man of the South Pole or Star of the Old Man.
A health deity is a god or goddess in mythology or religion associated with ... and longevity (long life), who is connected to calisthenics, diet, alchemy, neidan ...
Mythology portal; Eight Immortals, a similar group of Taoist immortals; Fu, Lu, and Shou (福祿壽), three deities of stars from Chinese folk religion, representing auspiciousness, good life and longevity. He-He Er Xian (和合二仙), Immortals of Harmony and Union, associated with happy marriages
Fu, Lu, and Shou (traditional Chinese: 福 祿 壽; simplified Chinese: 福 禄 寿; pinyin: Fú Lù Shòu; Cantonese Yale: Fūk Luhk Sauh), or Cai, Zi and Shou (財子壽) are also the embodiments of Fortune , presiding over the planet Jupiter, Prosperity (Lu), presiding over Mizar (ζ Ursa Majoris), and Longevity , presiding over Canopus.
麻姑献寿 "Magu Presents Longevity", late 19th-century mural in the Summer Palace's Long Corridor. Scholar Robert Campany provides details of Magu mythology in his annotated translation of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents (Shenxian zhuan (神仙傳), ca. 317 CE) and compares four Chinese textual variations of Magu stories. [10]