The mountain god is the most intimate with our Korean people regardless of religion. Although the faith or the thought is destined by the religion and the current, we Korean have believed the god of mountain.
For the first time, the mountain goddess ...
The mountain god is the most intimate with our Korean people regardless of religion. Although the faith or the thought is destined by the religion and the current, we Korean have believed the god of mountain.
For the first time, the mountain goddess was respected as the Holy mother of the Progenitor. It shows us that the faith of the mountain god was the way for strengthening the sovereign power by uniting the faith of mountain god with the faith of the Holy mother.
When the paternal rights was strengthened fort Confucianism, The Goddess of the mountain married the God of mountain. So she transferred her role to men naturally. In those days, the God of Jiri Mountain have been woman although she have had a lot of characters. It gives us the evidence the early god of the mountain was the woman.
Sung Gol General who married the Goddess of Buso mountain confined the sacredness of the Corea Dynasty's lineage as the Father of the first Emperor, Wang Gun and the Bupu Buddhist priest who married the Goddess of Jiri Mountain endowed with motive that Buddhism, the faith of mountain god and Shamanism were united as the Father of Shaman.
There were the mountain grid seemed like animals. While the tiger and the bear have been the intimate animals to us and they were agents of the mountain god as we know, the fox and the crow have been considered as unlucky or wicked animals. So I was surprised that there had been the mountain god seemed like the fox or the crow. Therefore there are a tot of differences between today's thought about animals and old one.
I could study we ancient Korean people's thought of the mountain god with the legendary literature about the mountain god. But it is hard to research the faith of the mountain god that is handed by word the mouth among the people. I'll leave the today's thought of the mountain god based on the literature handed by word of mouth.