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Xiwangmu

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Xiwangmu

 or Hsi Wang-Mu

In ancient Chinese Daoist mythology, the queen of the female immortals. A former mountain spirit who had been transformed into a beautiful woman, she ruled a paradise called West Flower, while her husband, Mu Gong, guarded males in his East Flower paradise. Her garden contained rare flowers and the peach of immortality, which blooms once in 3,000 years.



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