This article attempts to describe and explore how the followers of Xi Wang Mu (Queen Mother of the West) re-created the sacred place “Kulun” in Yu Shi Palace (or Jade World Palace)-a temple located in the middle of Taiwan. After the medium acquiring the creation myth of the Mother Goddess through spiritual vision, the followers initiated the pilgrimages to Mt. Kulun in Qing Hai Province of Mainland China once a year since 2010 to 2012, conducting specific ritual of obtaining soil and water on the sacred site, and with those material building another Kulun sacred realm in Taiwan. The newly built Kulun in the Palace can be seen as the confluence of geographical and mythological as well as imaginary and materialized place.
With analysis based on informers’ description about the pilgrimage experiences and the researcher’s participating observation of Kulun’s construction process, the implication of the religious practice is revealed in two aspects: firstly, from comparative perspective, different religious cultures locate their tendency toward sacred space between the spectrum between negative and positive ends. Sacred space is the prominent manifestation of Mother Goddess’ presence for the religious group. Building the sacred place not only could be regarded as the crucial devotional practice deriving from followers’ piety but also demonstrates through mythology-body-space the three dimensions the dynamic human-divine relationship. Secondly, through emplacing of the divine’s presence, the religious group recontextualizes its sacred history of the temple’s spiritual origin and claims its de-localized authority, which helps to make the identification and position in Wang-Mu belief community in Taiwan.