Daoist 12 apostles------------------------------Christian 12 apostles

9. Jade Tripod

3. James son of Zebedee in "a stone boat"

http://www.csj.org.uk/apostle.htm His legend, involving being required to yoke "untamed and savage bulls"

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/leyenda1.html resembleth that of Iason, who at lake Tritonis was given, by Triton, tripods.

8. Heavenly Master of Divine Virtue

4. John his brother most virtuous of the apostles, and surnamed "the Divine".

7. Virtue of the Pure Void restored, to another, eyesight (CoG, p. 355)

5. Philip commanded another to "see" (John 1:46)

6. Merciful Navigation "tossed his glazed vase in the air and ... Dong Quan was sucked inside." (CoG, p. 923)

6. Bartholomew -- Devil said :"I took a vial in mine hand" (Quaestions of Bartholomew 59): "Then Bartholomew commanded him to go into hell." (QoB 60) http://www.gnosis.org/library/gosbart.htm

5. Universal Virtue "fingers" (CoG, p. 925)

7. Thomas "finger" (John 20:27)

4. Heavenly Master of Outstanding Culture reconciled an uncle-and-nephew (CoG, p. 287)

8. Matthew treated with a father-and-son, both named Fulvanus -- Acts of Matthew http://www.gnosis.org/library/actmat.htm

3. Master Grand Completion slew (CoG, p. 1483) goddess "Fiery Spirit", who had "mounted her golden-eyed camel" (CoG, p. 1479)

9. James son of Alphaeus: "the skin of his knees and forehead was hardened like to camels' hoofs." (according to Hegesippus)

(LoF, Vol. V) http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/JAMES.htm

2. Master Pure Essence

10. Lebaeus Thaddaeus: cf. <arabic lubb "essence"

1. Burning Lamp "on Mount Divine Hawk" (CoG, p. 293)

11. Simon the Canaanite at a city called Suanir, possibly in the country of the Suani, a people in Colchis (LoF, Vol. III). http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/SIMON.htm [The name Colchian capital Aia is similar the name of the island Aiaia of Kirke "falcon".]

12. Yellow Dragon Immortal = ? serpent coiled in bowl (in Laotian myth)

12. Judas Iscariot whose 30 pieces of silver were used to buy potter's field (Matthew 27:3-7): cf. "Plain of Jars" in Laos

11. Krakuchanda ("who later became a Buddha" -- CoG, p. 891) founder of religion

1. Simon Peter "on this ... I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18)

10. Fairy Primordial left his "footprints over all the four seas" (CoG, p. 267)

2. Andrew his brother at "the sea" (Acts of Andrew 24)

http://www.gnosis.org/library/actandy.htm

   

CoG, pp. 1101-1015

Matthew 10:2-4; Mark 3:16-19; Luke 6:14-16 [; Acts 1:13]

   

other ordinal enumerations:--

... Cave

on ... Mountain

#

#

# "in pairs"

         
     

12.

 
   

Jiang Ziya

Jiang Ziya

 
   

Nangong Kuo

   
   

Wu Ji

   

Peach Spring

Nine Immortal

3.

3.

2. &

Exalted Cloud

Taihua

2.

2.

3.

       

10. &

       

Master Spiritual Treasure

       

7. &

Fairy Maid

Two Caelestial

12.

   

Flying Cloud

Dragon Squeezing

11.

11.

11.

     

4.

4. &

     

Immortal Universal Virtue

Universal Virtue

       

Master of the Clouds &

     

6.

6.

     

9.

9. &

     

Master of the Clouds

 

Golden Light

Qianyuan

10.

10.

 
     

7.

 
     

8.

8.

Original Yang

Kongtong

Master Spiritual Treasure

Master Spiritual Treasure

 

High Cloud

Five Dragon

4.

   

White Crane

Nine palace

5.

   

Perfumed Wood

Putuo

6.

   

Golden Haze

Jade Spring

9.

   

Jade House

Golden Courtyard

8.

   

Purple Sun

Green Peak

7.

   
       

12. &

     

Lu Ya

Lu Ya

     

1.

1. &

       

Jiang Ziya

       

Jinzha &

       

Muzha

       

Wei Hu &

       

Thunderbolt

         

p. 891

loc. cit.

loc. cit.

pp. 1589 & 1591

p. 1599

CoG = Xu Zhonglin (translated by Gu Zhizhong): Creation of the Gods. New World Press; Foreign Languages Press; Hunan People's Publishing House. Beijing, 2000.

LoF = "The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company