The Daoists "assigned" those who attained immortality to beautiful Kunlun, and with the admixture of some popular imagination the Queen Mother of the West, who in ancient times had been a tribal leader, was also transformed from a hideous monster with a panther's tail and tiger's teeth into a beautiful woman in her thirties, ruling over the Fairyland of Kunlun.
道教就將得道成仙之人，發配這美好的昆崙之墟，加上民間想像，原本為上古部族首領的西王母，也由猙獰的豹尾、虎齒異獸圖騰，一轉成為三十出頭的美婦，統領著昆崙仙境。