[ **up: [[Chinese deities]]** | [[River deities]]] --- # He Bo (Chinese deity) [[2024-0803. He Bo was the divine ruler over Chinese rivers; until the end of the Zhou Dynasty (256 BCE) a maiden was sacrificed to him annually by being thrown in the river as his bride.|He Bo was the divine ruler over Chinese rivers; until the end of the Zhou Dynasty (256 BCE) a maiden was sacrificed to him annually by being thrown in the river as his bride.]][^1] [^1]: Manfred Lurker, *[[Lurker. 'Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons', 2001.|Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons]]*, trans. G.L. Campbell (London: Routledge, 2015), s.v. ‘He Bo’.