What is 伏神 (fú shén) in Chinese metaphysics?

The Hidden God: when the sought god is absent from the hexagram, it hides beneath the corresponding line of the palace's first hexagram.

Original (Chinese): 卦中用神不现时,伏藏于本宫首卦对应爻位之下的暗藏之神。

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