Dǒumǔ
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dǒumǔ Yuánjūn (Lady Mother of the Chariot), Dòulǎo Yuánjūn (Lady Ancestress of the Chariot), Tàiyī Yuánjūn (Lady of the Great One), Dàomǔ (Mother of Dao), Tiānmǔ (Mother of Heaven), Tiānhòu (Queen of Heaven)
Dǒumǔ (), also known as , and , is a goddess in Chinese religion and Taoism. She is also named through the honorific Tiānhòu ( "Queen of Heaven"), shared with other Chinese goddesses, especially Mazu, who are perhaps conceived as her aspects. Other names are and .
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Within Vinony's link graph, Dǒumǔ is referenced by 34 other articles, and connects out to Chinese folk religion, Mazu and Chinese creation myth.
Vinony files it under Chinese goddesses, Solar goddesses and Taoist deities.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Chinese
- Deity.other_names
- Lady Mother of the ChariotMother of the Big Dipper
- Deity.member_of
- Ursa Major deities
- Deity.image
- 斗姆聖像.jpg
- Deity.deity_of
- Goddess of Heaven
- Deity.symbols
- Golden sealBell
- Deity.children
- Tianhuang EmperorZiwei Emperor
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.weapon
- Bow and arrowSpear
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Buddhist
- Deity.equivalent1
- Marici
- Deity.animals
- Boar
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- worshipped by
- Chinese folk religion
- Commons category
- Doumu
- present in work
- Investiture of the Gods
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Encyclopedic overview
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- In religious doctrines
- Taoist esotericism
- Buddhist interpretation
- Artistic depictions
- See also
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Dǒumǔ (), also known as , and , is a goddess in Chinese religion and Taoism. She is also named through the honorific Tiānhòu ( "Queen of Heaven"), shared with other Chinese goddesses, especially Mazu, who are perhaps conceived as her aspects. Other names are and .
She is the feminine aspect of the cosmic God of Heaven. The seven stars of the Big Dipper, in addition to two not visible to the naked eye, are conceived as her sons, the , themselves regarded as the ninefold manifestation of or , another name of the God of Heaven. She is therefore both wife and mother of the God of Heaven. In certain Taoist accounts she is identified as the ambiguous goddess of life and death Xiwangmu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dǒumǔ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.