Tản Viên Sơn Thánh (
Chữ Hán: 傘圓山聖, 304 BCE - ?),or Sơn Tinh (山精) is one of
The Four Immortals
The Four Immortals (Vietnamese: ''Tứ bất tử'', chữ Hán: 四不死) refers to the four chief cult figures in the pantheon of genii worshiped by the Vietnamese people of the Red River Delta
The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta ( vi, C ...
in traditional
Vietnamese mythology
Vietnamese mythology ( vi, Thần thoại Việt Nam 神話越南) comprises national myths, legends or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been infl ...
. He is the god of
Ba Vì mountain range
The Ba Vì mountain range ( Tên Nôm: Núi Ba Vì, Chữ Nôm: 𡶀𠀧位; Tên chữ: Tản Viên Sơn, Chữ Hán:傘圓山) is a soil-limestone mountain range in Vietnam. It covers an area of about 50 km2 in Ba Vì, Lương Sơn and ...
and figures also in the romance of
Sơn Tinh - Thủy Tinh ("the God of the Mountain and the God of the Water").
Temples are dedicated to him in most towns, for example the Và Temple in
Sơn Tây
''Toxicodendron succedaneum'', the wax tree, Japanese Hazenoki tree (Sumac or wax tree), sơn in Vietnam or charão in Portuguese, is a flowering plant species in the genus ''Toxicodendron'' found in Asia, although it has been planted elsewhere, ...
, Hanoi.
[Minh Trị Lưu -Historical remains & beautiful places of Hanoi and the surrounding areas Page 204 2000 "VÀ TEMPLE - Và Temple locates on a hill covered with green of old-age ironwood trees in Vân Giã hamlet, Trung Hưng commune, Sơn Tây town. Và Temple is differently called Đông Cung (East palace), dedicating to God Tản Viên"]
References
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Vietnamese mythology
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Mountain gods