Pantheon Deity East Asian traditions
Eight Immortals
八仙 zh 팔선 ko
Group of legendary xian (immortals) in Chinese mythology
- Members 8 on record
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
8 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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Lü DongbinChinese Taoist scholar and poet during the Tang Dynasty -
Immortal Woman HeOne of the Eight Taoist Immortals -
Imperial Uncle CaoSong dynasty person (CBDB = 16846) -
Lan CaiheChinese mythological figure -
Elder Zhang GuoChinese mythological figure -
Han XiangOne of the Eight Taoist Immortals -
Iron-Crutch LiTaoist mythological figure -
Zhongli QuanChinese mythological figure, one of the Eight Immortals of the Taoist pantheon
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