Kunlun and the Queen Mother of the West: The Route King Mu Took to a Centre Guarding Longevity
In accounts that place the journey around the tenth century BCE, a king leaves his court, travels west with gifts, crosses a difficult route, and shares a banquet with the keeper of power in a distant region. The king is Mu of Zhou, the keeper is the Queen Mother of the West, and the story comes from the Mu Tianzi Zhuan.
Read in Vietnamese →In accounts that place the journey around the tenth century BCE, a king leaves his court, travels west with gifts, crosses a difficult route, and shares a banquet with the keeper of power in a distant region. The king is Mu of Zhou, the keeper is the Queen Mother of the West, and the story comes from the Mu Tianzi Zhuan. Later retellings turn the Queen Mother into a goddess who grows peaches of immortality that ripen once every three thousand years. Earlier layers tie her to illness, punishment, blue birds, dangerous animals, rare trees, and a place reached only by people who know the route.
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