Shang Ti
Americannoun
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Perhaps about this period the title Shang Ti, or Supreme Ruler, came into vogue as synonymous with Tien.
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But although the two terms were synonyms, and both may be equally rendered by “God,” there is nevertheless an important distinction to be observed, much as though Tien and Shang Ti were two Persons in one substance.
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Tien is far more an abstract Being, while Shang Ti partakes rather of the nature of a personal God, whose anthropomorphic nature is much more strongly accentuated.
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Shang Ti is described as walking and talking, as enjoying the flavour of sacrifices, as pleased with music and dancing in his honour, and even as taking sides in warfare; whereas Tien holds aloof, wrapped in an impenetrable majesty, an ignotum pro mirifico.
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The deities seem to have been conceived as a kind of celestrial court of Shang Ti, as his "officials".
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