p.

#

goddess

her attributes

her [grotto-]heaven abode

68

1^st

Queen-Mother of the West

"a phosphor with no center"

Realm of Jade Clarity

79

2^nd

Mysterious Woman of the Nine Heavens

wearing kingfisher-feather garments of 9 colors

85

3^rd

Mother Lian

carriage drawn by blue goat

90

4^th

Maiden Bao

d. of the Attendant Esquire of the Yellow Gate

95

5^th

Bitter-Cold Flower

received Essentials of the Dark and White [alloy]

96

6^th

Personal Servant

fed grain to snow-birds

Floriate Yan

7^th

Western Flower

protected spiders

at Mt. Son

97

8^th

Rosegem Blossom

Palace of Transformation & Transcendence

9^th A

Spring Dragon

Palace of Transformation & Transcendence

9^th B

Gathered Fragrances

Palace of Transformation & Transcendence

98

10^th

Plain White Platform

lady for 400 years

Palace of Transformation & Transcendence

11^th

Ritual Harmony

ingested the essence of the 5 asterisms; sang to wild birds

99

12^th

Phosphor Florescence

Lady Who Coerceth the Chronograms

Palace of Transformation & Transcendence

13^th

Mistress Tenuity

ingesting misty vapors [from mountains & waterways, p. 100]

Terrace of the Realized Ones

100

14^th

Pure Blossom

saving the destitute

Vermilion Tumulus

111

15^th

Dharma Progress

cloud cranes

117-8

16^th

Ms. Wan

p. 117 cicada

p. 118, fn. 4 Mt. Huo

125-6

17^th

Flower Maiden

5-colored moths

129

18^th

Transcendent Maiden Xu

called monks "rats"

133-4

19^th

Transcendent Maiden Gou

p. 133 red-necked blue bird spoke to her

p. 134 Nine Uncertaintites Mountains

137

20^th

Tea Granny

flew out in jailbreak holding inexhaustible teapot

144-6

21^st

Lady of the Southern Stygian Realm

p. 146 received scroll written in cinnabar seal script from Honored Teacher of the Jade Barrens

p. 144, fn. 1 Pen-lai isle

155-60

22^nd

Grotto Mystery

wove on loom

p. 160 ascended alive to the south

163-4

23^rd

Fortune of the Belvedere

p. 163 committed suicide by drowning

p. 164 Realm of Supreme Clarity

167-8

24^th

Government of Mt. Yan-pin

p.168 had inexhaustible wine-bowl

p. 168 Mt. Yan-pin

174-5

25^th

Divine Maiden = Eyebrow Girl

made models of the 10 continents & 3 islands

p. 175 became feathered transcendent, riding purple cloud

180-5

26^th

Offering to the Transcendents

p. 180 perched "on tips of bamboo plants"

p. 185 Southern Pole

27^th

Dark Unity

p. 192 her hair miraculously grew long

feature

description

hunting-parks

of Mysterious Orchard & Vacant Wind

fortress-walls

metal, of 1000 layers

buildings

jade, 12-storeyed

watchtowers

rosegem florescence

halls

radiant cyan

terraces

9-storeyed mysterious

chambers

purple kingfisher cinnabar

on the left

Turquoise pond

on the right

Kingfisher river

having dishevelled hair, tigress's teeth, and is good at whistling

1^st

Queen-Mother of the West

2^nd

Thearch-Lord of the Golden Watchtowers

3^rd

Thearch-Lord of the Eastern Florescence

4^th

Transcendent Lord of the Left Palace of the Great Ultimate

peaks of the Heaped Stones mountain-range

ford of the Weak Flow river

ripples of the White Water river

ripples of the Black Waves river

Watchtowers of Kun-lun, where the West Quen Mother bestowed the Rosegem Floriate Classic of the Treasured Brilliants and Seven Chronograms

imperial chariot

horse on right

horse on left

inside pair

Flowery Bay

Green Ears

outside pair

Red Thoroughbred

White Sacrifice

other chariot

horse on right

horse on left

inside pair

Big Yellow

Swifter-then-Wheels

outside pair

Son of the Mountain

Black

1^st

Realized Rulers of the Nine Heavens

2^nd

Realized Illustrious of the Three Heavens

3^rd

Grand Supreme Realized People

4^th

Realized People Who Fly Through the Heavens

5^th

Numinous Transcendents

6^th

Realized People

7^th

Numinous People

8^th

Flying Transcendents

9^th

Transcendent People

her __

is __

imperial carriage

purple clouds

carriage-pullers

9-colored dappled dragons

tied around her waist, tablets

of the Caelestial Realized Ones

pendant

diamond numinous sigil

clothing

multi-colored tabby-weave silk

around her waist, a double-bladed sword

for dividing phosphors

great cord

of knotted flying clouds

atop her head, a topknot

great floriate

crown

of the Realized Ones; with hanging beaded strings of daybreak

shoen

with squared phoinix-patterned soles of rosegem

instrument

its name / description

chimes

8-orbed

organ

Cloud Harmony Mount

jade sounding-stones

from the courtyard of Mt. Kun-lun

flute

Thunder Numen

musical stone

of Wu-lin

lithophone

of the Grotto Yin

music of the West Queen Mother

harmonies

of the Nine Heavens

tunes

of the Mysterious Numina

activity

objective

locus

make firm & praeserve

the 3 ones

protect

the numinous root

tongue

take

the floriate vintage of the mystic vale

saliva

force it into

the deep treasure passage

throat

irrigate & extend

the pure seminal essence

have it enter

the caelestial gate

mouth

let it turn at

the golden apartment

[sinus]

and enter

the central barrier

nose

divide

the bright light into blue & white

have it reach

the mud ball

brain

praeserve

the scarlet palace

pass through

the unflowing source of the yellow courtyard

spleen

exhaled & inhaled through

the 6 archives

lesser viscera

category

instances

numinous, ingested by beings of the Grand Supreme

in concealment beneath the earth

marvellous grasses from the multi-layered clouds

middle, ingested by flying transcendents

9-fold cinnabar elixir & gold fluid

purple floriate rainbow blossoms

9-times-recycled elixir of the Realm of Grand Clarity

liqueur of 5 clouds

mysterious frost & scarlet snow

3-ascending & prancing yellows

white incense from Yin isle-land in the eastern ocean

born in flight from the Mysterious isle-land

8 minerals & 1000 fungi

wei-xi plant & 9-fold radiance

stone gall from Western Flow

blue-green cash from Watchet-wave river

left-over grain-rations from High Hill

produce of Piled-Stone Mountain & of Rosegem Field

recycled cinnabar elixir from the Grand Barrens

lowest, ingested by earthly transcendents

pine & cedar resins

mountain ginger & sinking seeds

chysanthemum flowers & water-plantain

boxthorn & pachyma fungus

acorus-rush & "gate-winter" (asparagus)

great victory & "yellow seeds" (Solomon's seal)

numinous flyer & red arrow

gum, wood, & blossoms of peach-tree

climbing-hemp and "connector-of-the-broken" (teasel)

wei-rui & golden thread

goddess

her human husband

p. 66, fn. 23

lady Wei Hua-cun (Realized of the Southern Marchmount)

Mao Yin

p. 66, fn. 24

goddess Ma-gu

Wan of the Western Walled City

deity

messenger

gift

Caelestial Illustrious Great Thearch

in embroidered clothing

divine sigil & jade writing-tablets

Lord Thearch of Grand Tenuity

Autocrat's Notary of the Left Palace of the 3 Heavens

8-dragon multi-colored tabby-weave silk; purple-feathered floriate clothing

Grand Supreme Lord of the Way

Dawn-Assisting Grandee

Veritable Talisman of the Metal Tiger; folly-bell

Realized Person of the Grand Ultimate (as per command by the Incomparable Lord of the Golden Watchtower)

Jade Squires of Rectified Unity & Supreme Mystery

swallow wombs of the 4 junctions; divine fungi of flowing brightness

the eaten

the office

concealed fungi from the 4 junctures

Steward of the Realized Ones

jade fungi of the Golden Watchtowers

Director of Destiny

metal blossoms of flowing brightness

Director Responsible for Transcendent Salaries & Promotions

paired flying plants of extended luminosity

Realized Lord

grotto grasses of night radiance

governing the Autocrat's Notaries of the Left & Right

Talismans of the Military Tokens of the 6 Jia Cyclicals and the 6 Ren Cyclicals

the 5 Numinous Treasure Talismans

Document for Forcing Ghosts and Spirits into Service

Sigil of the 5 Bright-Shiners for Regulating the Uncanny and Communicating with the Numina

Formula of the 5 Yin and 5 Yan for Concealing the Jia Cyclicals

Charts for Grabbing the Mechanism of Victory and Defeat of the Grand Unity from the 10 Essences and 4 Spirits

Charts of the 5 Marchmounts and the 4 Holy Rivers

Instructions in the Essentials of Divining Slips

jade tallies of the 9 radiances

pennants of the 10 cutoffs

swords which commanded daimones

auroral cloud caps

fire belt pendants

dragon halberds

rainbow banners

kingfisher carriages

green palanquin with sinuous dragons as the inner pairs of the draught-teams and tigers riding astride

1000-flowered canopies

8-simurgh carts

feathered flutes

mysterious staves

rainbow-standards

jade battle-axes

creations of the divine transcendents

sigils of the 5 dragons

pearls of the 9 bright-shiners

tallies of the 9 heavens

p.

event

144-5

white jade idol of the Tian-zun "Heaven-Honored [One of the Primordial Commencement", p. 145, fn. 3]

145

huge sea-beast

purple cloud from surface of sea, amidst which was 100-foot tall revolving lotus-flower, within which was embroidered silk tent

Daoist Gentleman (riding white deer over multi-colored clouds) instructed wayfarers to follow female attendant

followed that female attendant along rainbow-bridge to the tent

146

100-foot tall gold-armored executioner of road-clearing water-spirit Tian-wu

they having been instructed to depart by way of the Hundred-Flower Bridge, to the wayfarers was given a jade pot to be knocked upon by them

amid railing's strange flowers, "a thousand snakes and a myriad dragons, knotted and woven together so as to make the bridge."

female envoy (whose son had been adopted by the Esquire Ruler of the Southern Marchmount) gave box of amber containing water-spider

147

that female envoy entrusted also her son's jade play-ring

having knocked on the jade pot, it was an inexhaustible food-source

the wayfarers found that 12 years had magically passed since their departure by sea {cf. [Irish] voyage of Bran, etc.}

148

met old man firewood-carrier who was [Prior-Born of, p. 147] the Grand Ultimate: the firewood being for Z^u-ron [fire-god, inside Mt. Hen (p. 148, fn. 4)]

"There is one great grotto for each of the twenty-four transformations.

Some are about fifteen hundred or thirteen hundred li square.

In the center of all of them are the sun and moon and flying essences, which we call the roots of concealed deities. ...

Within [the grottos] are transcendent kings, transcendent ministers, and transcendent officials".

p.

term

definition

21

guan

belvedere (observatory)

22

jin

phosphor (glowing)

san-s^i

3 corpses (= 3 worms)

s^i-jie

corpse-liberation

wu-yue

5 marchmounts

xian

transcendent < "leap over"

23

yin-de

hidden virtue (= yin-gon "hidden good works")

z^en-ren

realized person

z^uan

transmission