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Odin
wisdom, poetry, war
Queen Mother of the West
Also: Xīwángmǔ
Chinese tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- immortality, plague
- Symbols and attributes
- Peaches of immortality; Kunlun
- relation to the Jade Emperor varies
- Jade Emperor
Key myth
In the Shanhaijing she is a fierce figure with a tiger's teeth, a leopard's tail and a loud voice; later she becomes a gracious goddess of immortality.
Where sources differ or caution applies. Later texts make her the Jade Emperor's wife or mother; neither is in early sources.
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Queen Mother of the West: death and the underworld, sky, storm and thunder. This is overlap in one area only.