 | Hampden C. DuBose - Buddhism - 1886 - 470 pages
...noted equestrians, and choose the night for their races upon the hills. Western Royal Mother. — « A fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount...to time intercourse with favoured Imperial votaries ; the imagination of the Taoist writers of several centuries has been exercised in glowing descriptions... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - Porcelain, Chinese - 1901 - 396 pages
...forms her emblem." Si Wang Mu. — A fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'e"n Lun, at the head of the troops of genii, and holding from...time intercourse with favoured imperial votaries. According to the books of Chow, the Emperor Muh Wang was entertained (985 BC) by Si Wang Mu at the... | |
 | Friedrich Hirth - China - 1908 - 434 pages
...the troops of genii inhabiting Mt. K'un-lun and holding from time to time intercourse with favorite imperial votaries. Such is the legend which has grown...slender basis afforded by the occurrence of the name in very early traditions. An obscure reference to Si-wang-mu is also to be found in the Shan-hai-king,... | |
 | William Giuseppi Gulland - Porcelain - 1911 - 568 pages
...King Mu (Mother) of the West — a fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'ên Lun, at the head of the troops of genii, and holding from...slender basis afforded by the occurrence of the name Si Wang Mu in very early traditions. The Apocryphal, or Books of Chow, which probably date from some... | |
 | William Giuseppe Gulland - Porcelain - 1911 - 566 pages
...King Mu (Mother) of the West — a fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'en Lun, at the head of the troops of genii, and holding from...slender basis afforded by the occurrence of the name Si Wang Mu in very early traditions. The Apocryphal, or Books of Chow, which probably date from some... | |
 | William Giuseppi Gulland - Porcelain - 1918 - 572 pages
...King Mu (Mother) of the West— a fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'en Lun, at the head of the troops of genii, and holding from...the course of ages from the slender basis afforded hy the occurrence of the name Si Wang Mu in very early traditions. The Apocryphal, or Books of Chow,... | |
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Mother, or King Mu (Mother) of the West — a fabulous being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'en Lun, at the head of the troops of genii, and holding from time to time intercourse with favoured imperial votaries. Such is the legend which has... 