In Chinese mythology and legend, Queen Mother of the West is in charge of the elixir of life and is the goddess of immortality; In Taoism, she is the goddess of creation; In Qiang mythology, the Queen Mother of the West is considered the creation god.
Now, some people think that the Queen Mother of the West is actually the female leader of the Western Regions tribe, and some people even directly say that she is actually the female pharaoh of Egypt.
Why did the Queen Mother of the West, a figure in ancient Chinese legends, be involved with the female pharaoh of Egypt? Who is her prototype?
The earliest record of the Queen Mother of the West can be traced back to the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The record of the Queen Mother of the West is: The Queen Mother of the West is like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth and a good roar, and unkempt hair and hoopoes, which is the strength of Si Tian and the five cripples.
So the early Queen Mother of the West was not a god. The tail of the leopard, the teeth of the tiger, and the roar from time to time, are like monster beasts that have cultivated into human form.
However, the image of the Queen Mother of the West in "The Legend of Mu Tianzi" has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the Queen Mother of the West has directly changed from a fierce god who is half human and half beast to a queen image born in an imperial crotch.
It is said that King Mu of Zhou began to travel around the world in order to expand his territory.
King Mu of Zhou passed through a place called the Western Queen Mother, which was a tribe of ethnic minorities, and the ruling woman in the tribe was the Western Queen Mother.
Queen Mother Xi and King Mu of Zhou fell in love with each other at first sight and liked each other, so they met to visit Yaochi together.
In the process of playing, King Mu of Zhou also gave his jade Bi Baigui with him to the Queen Mother of the West as a token of love between the two.
Soon after, people often associated the myth and legend of the Western Queen Mother with King Mu of Zhou's Western Crusade, and the image of the Queen Mother of the West was gradually mythologized, among which the story of King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West meeting in Yaochi was the most popular and had a great influence.
It can be seen that the Queen Mother of the West is real, but not a real goddess. So who is the prototype of the Queen Mother of the West?
According to the signs left by the history books, archaeologists still found traces of the mother kingdom of the Western Queen.
There is a cave twenty kilometers away from Tianjun County, and there are many scriptures and petroglyphs on the walls of the cave. It is believed that the Queen Mother of the West once lived here, so the cave was named the Stone Chamber of the Queen Mother of the West.
Historians confirm that the Queen Mother of the West was the later Queen Mother Niangniang, possibly a leader of an ethnic minority in Xinjiang, Gansu, and Tibet.
Therefore, the true image of the Queen Mother of the West, most people speculate should be: the Queen Mother of the West is the queen of a tribe in the Western Regions, which worships beasts, so the clothes are decorated with "leopard tails", and it is possible to sharpen several teeth, like a tiger.
However, in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", it is recorded differently, in which it is said that Mu Tianzi took the army of the Western Zhou Dynasty and traveled westward for three years, traveling about 30,000 kilometers, to meet the Western Queen Mother in the Western Motherland.
It can be seen from here that the so-called meeting, Mu Tianzi's status, is lower than that of the Queen Mother of the West.
So let's think, what was the identity of Mu Tianzi at that time? With the status of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, there was also Mu Tianzi's attitude of visiting his superiors from his subordinates.
Then there is only one possibility, the Queen Mother of the West was the female pharaoh of ancient Egypt at that time!