HY 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Samgungnyusa, Hwanung, Emperor Yao
28 Sep 2016
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The old record notes that in olden times hwanin"s son, hwanung, wished to descend from heaven and live in the world of human beings. Hwanung descended with three thousand owers to a spot under a tree by the holy altar atop mt. T"aebaek, and he called this place the city of god. At that time a bear and a tiger living in the same cave prayed to holy hwanung to transform them into human beings. He gave them a bundle of sacred mugworts and twenty cloves of garlic and said: If you eat these and shun the sunlight for one hundred days, you will assume human form. both animals ate the species and avoided the sun. After twenty-one days the bear became a woman but the tiger, unable to observe the taboo, remained a tiger. Unable to nd a husband, the bear-woman prayed under the altar tree for a child.
