Wusheng Laomu


Wusheng Laomu, also called Wujimu, is a goddess in Chinese religion, an epithet of Xiwangmu, the ancient mother goddess of China associated to the mythical Kunlun, the axis mundi. She is also frequently called upon as Yaochi Jinmi.
With this title, Xiwangmu is the central figure of many Chinese salvationist religions, representing the absolute principle of reality, or the creative origin of all things. One of her symbols is the Big Dipper. As early as the Han dynasty, 3 year BCE, there were millenarian movements worshipping Xiwangmu.

Description in sectarian scriptures

Wusheng Laomu is described in many ways in the scriptures of some Chinese folk religious sects. For instance, an excerpt from the "Precious Scripture of the Dragon-Flower", pertaining to the Dragon Flower sect, says:
From another section of the Dragon Flower, "It is required that all male and female members gather with neither difference nor discrimination". Equality of men and women is a characteristic element of the Chinese sectarian tradition, for both males and females are equally children of the Eternal Mother, and both of them are the same in the "Former Heaven", the original state of birth from the goddess.
The aim of every follower of the Eternal Venerable Mother is to return to her. For example, an excerpt of the "Precious Scroll Explaining the Great Vehicle" says:
In the sect tradition, for example as explained in the "Precious Repentance of Blood Lake" of Hongyangism, the condition of suffering is inherent to the human being in the world, necessary to creation itself. The material world is likened to a "Blood Lake", filthy and dirty waters that necessarily flow out of women's bodies when a child is born.