They are vague spirits who accompany the major deities and dispense good fortune.
The Smarta sect worship the five major deities as supreme in turn and collectively.
They seemed to serve every major deity in the Taoist pantheon.
One of the major ancestral deities is known as Samoji.
Another aged man, god L, was one of the major deities of the underworld.
Ganga is a consort to all three major male deities of Hinduism.
"But what in the name of the fifty-seven major deities shall I do?"
By the fifty-seven major deities, I had not thought of that!
In all accounts, Gonggong seems to have either ended up being killed or sent into exile, generally after losing a struggle with another major deity.
Asclepius was killed by Zeus, only to be resurrected and transformed into a major deity.
