Ma Gu

Ma Gu (kinesisk: 麻姑; pinyin: Mágū; Wade–Giles: Ma Ku) er i kinesisk mytologi en legendarisk daoistisk xian (仙 «udødelig, transcendent») knyttet til livseliksiret. Navnet kan oversettes som «hamp-tjenestepiken»; det kinesiske tegnet for hamp er samtidig tegnet for cannabis.

Magu, udødelighetens gudinne, hengende rull fra 1700-tallet, Nasjonalmuseet i Warszawa).

Fortellinger i kinesisk litteratur beskriver Ma Gu som en vakker ung kvinne med fuglelignende fingernegler, og tidlige legender knytter henne til huler.

Ma Gu xian shou (麻姑獻壽 «Fødselsdagshilsener fra Ma Gu») er et populært motiv i kinesisk kunst.

Litteratur

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• Christie, Anthony (1968). Chinese Mythology. Feltham: Hamlyn Publishing. ISBN 0-600-00637-9.
• Eberhard, Wolfram. 1968. The Local Cultures of South and East China, Alide Eberhard, tr. Lokalkulturen im alten China, v. 2, 1943. E.J. Brill.
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• Hwang, Hye Sook. 2004. An Investigation of Gynocentric Unity in Mago, the East Asian Great Goddess, and Elsewhere Presented at the Conference of Pacific and Southwest Women’s Studies, Scripps College, Claremont CA.
• Kohn, Livia. 1993. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York Press.
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• Liu Ts'un-yan and Judith Berling. 1982. "The 'Three Teachings' in the Mongol-Yuan Period," in Chan Hok-lam and Wm. Theodore de Bary, eds., Yuan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion under the Mongols, 479-512, Columbia University Press.
• Mair, Victor H. 1990. "Old Sinitic *Myag, Old Persian Maguš and English Magician,” Early China 15: 27–47.
• Miyakawa Hisayuki. 1979. "Local Cults around Mount Lu at the Time of Sun En's Rebellion," in Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion, Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds., 83-102. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Needham, Joseph. 1959. Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Cambridge University Press.
• Needham, Joseph. 1974. Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality. Cambridge University Press.
• Needham, Joseph. 1980. Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention. Cambridge University Press.
• Penny, Benjamin. 2007 "Magu 麻姑," in The Encyclopedia of Taoism, Fabrizio Pregadio, ed., Routledge, 731-732.
• Wilhelm, Hellmut. 1944. [Review of] "Wolfram Eberhard: Untersuchungen über den Aufbau der chinesischen Kultur II. Teil 2: Die Lokalkulturen des Südens und Ostens," Monumenta Serica 9:209-230.