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Updated: June 20, 2025
Tso-ch'iu Ming, commentator on Confucius's Annals, frequently introduced legend into his history. He is the first to mention the story of Hsi Wang Mu, the Western Queen, and from his day onward the fabulists have vied with one another in fantastic descriptions of the wonders of her fairyland.
This was always a great delight to the Princess and the children, which were afterward born to her, until they also took delight in calling out to one another: "Mu Mu Mu." So for very many years happiness reigned in the palace, and not only in the palace, but throughout the city of Bagdad, the capital of the ancient Saracen Empire. The Five Queer Brothers
We are undone! Pirates! They will kill us all! Mu! mu! don't let them murder me!" A moment longer and Cornelia, in her rising contempt, would have spurned him with her foot. There were more feet on the stairway. Glaring torches were tossing over gold inlaid armour. A man of unusual height and physique strode at the head of the oncomers, clutching and dragging by the wrist a quivering slave-boy.
Their biographies are usually arranged in the order of their official eminence or seniority in age. Here I follow that adopted in Hsiu hsiang Pa Hsien tung yu chi in which they are described in the order in which they became Immortals. Li T'ieh-kuai He is also known as K'ung-mu. Hsi Wang Mu cured him of an ulcer on the leg and taught him the art of becoming immortal.
They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh horror the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried 'Mu...mu... they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they were. The two enchanted birds wandered sadly on through the meadows.
The decisive battle took place at Mu Yeh, situated to the south of Wei-hui Fu, in 1122 B.C. The soldiers of Yin, 700,000 in number, were defeated, and Chou, the tyrant, shut himself up in his magnificent palace, set it alight, and was burned alive with all his possessions.
There was no Tao; no simplicity; no magic; no Garden of Si Wang Mu in the West; no Azure Birds of Compassion to fly out from it into the world of men. Very well then; he, being one with that non-existent Tao, would ride away to that imaginary Garden; would go, and leave A strand torn out of the rainbow to be woven into the stuff of Chinese life.
This is snow collected from the plum blossom, five years back, when I was in the P'an Hsiang temple at Hsuean Mu. All I got was that flower jar, green as the devil's face, full, and as I couldn't make up my mind to part with it and drink it, I interred it in the ground, and only opened it this summer. I've had some of it once before, and this is the second time.
But if China entered it guided by white Atlantean Adepts, it would have been for her Fairyland; it would have been the Fortunate Islands; it would have been the Garden of Siwang Mu, the paradise of the West; and when she came forth it would have been it might have been with a bent not towards intellectual, but towards spiritual achievements.
Kyrios " cried the pirate chief, "you indeed seem to enjoy our hospitality but ill." Your Highness. Phaon fell on his knees. "I am a poor man," he began to whimper. "I have no means of paying a ransom. My patron is not here to protect or rescue me. I have nothing to plunder. Mu! mu! set me free, most noble pirate!
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