Queen Mother of the West
c. 1200 BCE – 2026 CEattested
the Kunlun mountains
- Chinese
Keeper of the peaches of immortality, which ripen once every three thousand years. She appears in oracle-bone-era material as a fanged plague spirit and ends up, two millennia later, as a serene court lady.
Known for
- the peaches that ripen every three thousand years
- from plague spirit to court lady
- guardian of immortality
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.