二郎神

Erlang Shen

二郎神，又称：川主、显圣二郎真君，是中国民间和道教的神祇人物。民间多认为他是一位与水利、农耕、防止水灾、旱灾有关的神，甚至是水神。一般认为二郎神居于四川灌县（今都江堰市）。

二郎神信仰起源于唐朝之前四川地区对于秦蜀郡太守李冰的信仰崇拜，并在北宋时期便流行于全中国。然而元朝之后，受到戏曲话本小说的大肆渲染，中国全国范围内的二郎神信仰中的治水成分受到削弱。因而仍然基于治水传说的巴蜀地区二郎神信仰产生了分化，并在明清发展成为了川主信仰，川主（二郎神）被认为是四川和重庆的乡土神。

中国史学家张政烺认为二郎神是将几种民间俗神，如李冰之次子、赵昱、张仙、杨戬混合而成。

二郎神的第三只眼睛名叫“天眼”。这天眼拥有许多功能，一则可以辨明事物本源，无论神仙幻化或妖魔迷阵都一看便知本相。

Erlang Shen is a Chinese god with a third truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead.

Erlang Shen may be a deified version of several semi-mythical folk heroes who helped regulate China's torrential floods dating variously from the Qin, Sui, and Jin dynasties. A later Buddhist source identifies him as the second son of the Northern Heavenly King Vaishravana.

In the Ming semi-mythical novels Creation of the Gods and Journey to the West, Erlang Shen is the nephew of the Jade Emperor. In the former, he assists the Zhou army in defeating the Shang. In the latter, he is the second son of a mortal and the Jade Emperor's sister. In the legend, he is known as the greatest warrior god of heaven.

Mecha deities