Kannon, one of the most popular deities in Japanese Buddhist mythology. Kannon is a merciful intercessor, anyone could turn to her for help. Kannon was capable of transformation: she came to an old man as an old man, to a monk as a monk, to a woman as a woman. Early images of Kannon had a thousand hands, and with each of them the goddess was believed to save a sinner. In Chinese mythology it corresponds to Guanyin, in Buddhist mythology it corresponds to Avalokiteshvara.
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