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China: Xiwangmu, The Queen Mother of the West. A Jin Dynasty (265-420 CE) representation.

China: Xiwangmu, The Queen Mother of the West. A Jin Dynasty (265-420 CE) representation.

As the ancestor of Female Immortals, the Queen Mother of the West lives in the Kunlun Mountains, in a city of one thousand miles with twelve jade mansions, green light halls, nine-storey primordial chambers, and purple and green elixir chambers. To the left is the Jade Lake, and to the right are the Green Mountains. All women who have attained immortality in the three realms and ten directions, in Heaven or in the human world, are under the rule of the Queen Mother of the West.

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