Wusheng Laomu

Wúshēng Lǎomǔ (無生老母 "Eternal Venerable Mother"), also called Wujimu (無極母 "Infinite Mother"), is a goddess in Chinese religion, an epithet of Xiwangmu ("Queen Mother of the West"), the ancient mother goddess of China associated to the mythical Kunlun, the axis mundi. She is also frequently called upon as Yáochí Jīnmǔ (瑶池金母 "Golden Mother of the Nacre Lake").

With this title, Xiwangmu is the central figure of many Chinese salvationist religions (the "Maternist" ones), representing the absolute principle of reality. One of her symbols is the Big Dipper. As early as the Han dynasty, 3 year BCE, there were millenarian movements worshipping Xiwangmu.

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:

After the emergence of the Ancient Awakened, heaven and earth were established; after the rise of the Eternal Venerable Mother, Former Heaven was established. The Eternal Venerable Mother conceives from herself and begets yin and yang. The yin is the daughter and the yang is the son. Their names are Fuxi and Nüwa respectively.

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:

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