p.

Hellenic

226

[C^eju islander] "the goddess Samseung-halmang ... the goddess of childbirth, ... was originally a maiden from Mengjinguk or the country of long life. ... she competed in a flower contest with a maiden from Yowanguk or the country of the dragon king located in the ocean. The maiden from Mengjinguk won the contest and was appointed the goddess of childbirth, whereas the maiden from Yowanguk left for the other world where she became the goddess of death called Kusamseung-halmang".

cf. the "female serpent" of Maionia : she plucked the "pain-killing" "flower of Zeus" (Nonnos : Dionysiaka 25:452sq. – DM2); cf. likewise the serpent of Maionia associated at river Sagaris (‘Skuthian weapon’) with (Huginos : Astronomika 2:14 -- DM1) queen Omphale ‘navel’ (her name referring perhaps to

222

[Alarsk Buryat] while asleep, the blooming flowers of Toltu: H^an were exchanged. [p. 223 therefore, Toltu: H^an became Erlik, ruler over the dead]

the waterlily-flower growing from the navel of Brahma < *Mragh- : [Hellenic] Morpheus ‘dream’).

p.

230

[North Korea] "the cosmogonic giant ... to discover the sources of water and fire ... turns to the grasshopper and the frog for advice, and eventually obtains help from the mouse."

cf. [Bambara (of Mali)] "it was believed that during the dry season, the toad transformed itself into a mouse." (T&T, p. 166)

231

[Altai Kizi] Bai U:lgen, "upon his return from heaven, ... finds the human body already animated by Erlik. ... Bai U:lgen decides to act only after receiving advice from the frog".

[Sebop (of Borneo)] headhunting was instituted at "frog’s advice" (PTB, cap. 17).

"men did not exist on earth until a virgin from heaven named Tanggum Aegi married a divine monk and begot three sons. She later became the goddess of childbirth called Samshin Halmoni [Grandmother Samshin] and her sons became Sambul Chesok, three heavenly gods ...

The child is protected by the Samshin until it is seven years old, from this time his welfare is the responsibility of Ch>ilsong, the god of the Seven Stars [Ursa Major]".

"There are believed to be Ten Great Kings (Ship Taewang) in the Nether World, and the soul of the dead goes through each of the ten palaces of the ten kings for them to judge". {this is of Daoist provenience}

"During his lifetime, a man is believed to live under the auspices of Songju ‘Household god’, Op ‘God of Fortune’, Taegam ‘High Official God’ ".

p. 239 acc. to Kim Su-hi (female) of Paran

p. 239 acc. to S^im Pok-sun of Wonan

p. 240 acc. to C^on Tae-bok (female) of P>yon-yan

p. 240 acc. to O Un-suk of Seoul

p. 240 acc. to C^an Myon-hun (male) of Seoul

1. C^>on-s^in (‘Heaven-god’)

1. C^>on-s^in

1. C^>on-s^in

1. C^>on-s^in

1. C^>on-s^in

2. C^>on-hwan

3. C^>on-jon

2. Ok-hwan San-je (‘Ultimate Dao’)

4. Ok-hwan San-je

3. Ir-wol-son-s^in (‘Sun-Moon-Stars-god’)

2. Ir-wol-son-s^in

5. Ir-wol-son-s^in

2. C^>il-son (‘7 stars’)

2. C^>il-son

4. C^>il-son

3. C^>il-son

6. C^>il-son

3. San-s^in (‘Mountain-god’)

3. San-s^in

5. San-s^in

4. San-s^in

7. San-s^in

4. Sahae Yon-s^in (‘Dragon of 4 seas’)

6. Sahae Yon-wan (‘Dragon sea-king’)

7. C^>oe Yon C^an-gun-nim

5. C^>oe Il C^an-gun

8. C^an-gun-nim

6. Kwan-son C^e-gun

8. Son-ja

9. Pulsa (‘Monk’)

5. Sambul C^esok

10. C^esok

4. S^in-jan (‘Warrior-god’)

9. S^in-jan

7. S^in-jan

11. S^in-jan

5. Pyol-san (‘Smallpox-god’)

8. Pyol-san

10. Sonag

9. Yon-wan

6. C^an-gun (‘Military General’)

6. C^an-gun

10. Pu-gun

7. Son-ju

11. Son-ju

8. Tae-gam

11. Tae-gam

12. Tae-s^in Halmoni

12. Tae-s^in

9. C^i-s^in (‘Earth-god’)

10. C^o-wan (‘Kitchen-god’)

13. C^o-san-s^in (‘Ancestors’)

7. Kollip (shaman’s god)

11. Kollip

12. Kollip

13. Kollip

13. Hajol

14. Subi

15. Yon-san

14. Yon-san

"she began to see, not in dreams but in real life, circles on the wall that radiated bright like the sun and the moon. ... Later she became a shaman through a kut initiation".

"enshrined on the wall of her shibang ‘sacred room or god’s room’ " :-

C^>on-s^in Tae-gam [2 different deities (S^im Pok-su’s #s 1 & 8) amalgamated]

Oban S^in-jan [the latter is Kim Su-hi’s # 4]

San-s^in-ryon [Kim Su-hi’s # 3]

Sambul C^esok [S^im Pok-sun’s # 5]

C^>il-son [Kim Su-hi’s # 2]

Sosan Taesa

Samyon Taesa

Pu-gun (‘village tutelary deity’) [O Un-suk’s # 10]

Yon-gun Puin (‘dragon-king’s wife’)

C^>oe Yon C^an-gun [C^on Taebok’s # 7]

Kwan-son C^e-gun [O Un-suk’s # 6]

Hwadok C^an-gun (‘hound of the kitchen-furnace’)

Il-gwan Posal

Wol-gwan Posal

"Since the last two are the gods by whom she was possessed, the sun and the moon are rendered on the shoulders of the two figures." {cf. Bodish tutelary-deities reckoned as perched upon humans’ shoulders}

p.

gods

241

"found himself prostrate on a sand dune after he had ascended to heaven during his initiation. Written on the sand were thirty letters which he interpreted as the embodiment of thirty gods.

... therefore enshrined the following thirty gods :" {actual count : 28}

according to C^an Myon-hun

p. 240 # acc. to C^on Tae-bok

p. 240 # acc. to C^an Myon-hun

Ir-wol-son-s^in

3

5

Ok-hwan San-je

2

4

Sambul C^esok

10

242

C^>il-son

4

6

San-s^in

5

7

C^>oe Il C^an-gun

Yi T>ae-jo Tae-wan

Son-ja

8

C^>on-s^in

1

1

Pyol-san [O Un-suk’s # 8]

Tae-s^in Halmoni

12

Mul Haraboji (‘Grandfather Water’)

Yon-gun Puin [in Mun Tok-sun’s list]

Yaksa Posal

Sok Puc^>o (‘stone Buddha’)

Ton-ja Puc^>o (‘child Buddha’)

Pu-gun [in Mun Tok-sun’s list]

Kwan-gon

8

8

War-yon Son-saen

Pau S^in-ryon

C^>on-s^in Tae-gam [in Mun Tok-sun’s list]

Ogujindug

Paekhangari Yon-wan Pulsa (‘God of Jars’)

9

Yon S^an-gun

Sokka Yorae (S`akya-muni)

Ansan Kut Umul Gunjaban Taewa (‘God of village well’)

Malmun S^in-jan (‘sacred voice’)

Aegi Ton-ja

Im Yon-rye

p. 240 O Un-suk’s #

Man-myon (= Mal-myon) Halmoni

cf. 12

C^>il-son

3

C^>oe Il C^an-gun

5