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	Korean mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In later years both Korean Buddhism and shamanism were heavily purged, almost to the point of being lost from the consciousness of the general population.
		"Korean") of the pre-literate cosmologies in Korea and involve a great deal of reference to local geography, such as mountains, rivers, etc. Ancient korean totemic and shamanistic legends constitute a part of the larger unwritten oral literature which focused on the local Mudang (shaman).
		Also known as the Mago-Mythology 마고신화(麻姑神話), this is actually one of the lesser-known Korean cosmologies due in part to the rising influence of Buddhism and taoism around this period, as well as the imposition of a patriarchial system which desisted the heavily goddess-oriented nature of the legend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_mythology (2871 words)

	Talk:Chi You - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This reminds me of Korean ultra-nationalists who claim that this region was actually Korean...
		I am afraid that this is the case.
		Koreans did worshipped Chi You as a war deity, but I see the things about Baedal and Hwangoong as a different mythology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Chi_You (560 words)

	Korean mythology
		To understand more about the character and scope of Korean mythology and folklore, it is necessary to have at least a brief background in the history and geography of the country.
		The earliest political entities on the Korean peninsula were walled city-states that arose during the Bronze Age, not unlike the city-states of Greece.
		We began this section by asking "What is mythology in the Korean context?" and the answer is that it is something quite different from mythology in the Western context.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/k/korean_mythology.html (2718 words)

	'Century of the Tiger' tells of Koreans' evolution - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Similarly, Korean culture, history and society have flowered in "Koreatowns" in the midst of American cities, surrounded on both sides by barriers of ignorance, racism, language, stereotypes, geopolitics, and differences of culture and aesthetics.
		After the Korean War, when laws were changed, a flood of Korean newcomers arrived, but for much of their history in Mainland America, Koreans tended to congregate in largely Korean communities in urban centers.
		A slightly ditzy Korean American thirtysomething, burned out on relationships and bummed out by what seems a dead-end life, decides to be a cowgirl instead, dyes her hair blond, starts listening to Patsy Kline and then encounters a real cowboy.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Jan/13/il/il01a.html (882 words)

	Korean mythology Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Korean mythology consists of national legends & folk-tales which come from the all over the Korean penninsula.
		There are now very few practicioners of the ancient Korean religions in Seoul and charlatans have quickly gobbled-up the former shaman audience in the quest to exploit people seeking spirituality.
		It seems that out of an initial chaos the world was formed and a race of giants set up the stars In the heavens, and sperated them from a deepness of water.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/korean_mythology.html (549 words)

	Regional Folklore and Mythology
		Greek Mythology discusses the cosmogony and theogony of the Greeks, the story of the Argonauts, and the Iliad and the Odyssey.
		Mythology of Jupiter offers brief versions of myths about the god Jupiter and some of the other characters after which the moons of the planet Jupiter were named.
		Dazhdbog in Russian mythology by Sergei Naoumov recounts the tale of the son of the god Perun and the mermaid Ros.
	www.pibburns.com /mythregi.htm (5605 words)

	John Gittings, Korean shamans blame Christian extremists for raid on royal tomb
		And last week’s decapitation of the Tangun statues delivered a new shock: it is being blamed on Christian extremists who oppose a campaign to reassert the beliefs of Korean mythology in a country where their faith is dominant.
		Korean shamanism is related to Siberian rites but has developed differently over the past 2,000 years.
		She says the beliefs still survive in the north: a defector told her he had sought advice from a local shaman before running the risk of escaping.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/354.html (724 words)

	Korean History:: A Bibliography :::::: [LITERATURE]
		"Interrelationships in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Literature." (Yonse taehakkyo inmun kwahak yonguso) Inmun kwahak 27-28 (1972:12): 291-305.
		Korean Studies at the Dawn of the Millennium: Proceedings of The Second Biennial Conference, Korean Studies Association of Australia.
		"Korean Society as Reflected in the Short Stories by Na Tohyang and Hyon Chingon." In Hangukhak ui kwaje wa chonmang: Che-5 hoe kukche haksul hoeui segye Hangukhak taehoe nonmunjip I (Kijo yonsol - yoksa - omun p'yon): Korean Studies, Its Tasks and Perspectives I: Papers of the 5th International Conference on Korean Studies.
	www.hawaii.edu /korea/bibliography/literature.htm (6657 words)

	Chi You - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Chinese and Korean mythology, Chi You is a war deity.
		Along with Yan Di and Huang Di, Chi You is a deity in Hmong mythology, Chi You was the mythical leader of the Hmongs, king of Jiuli, and once a follower of Yan Di.
		Other mythology states that Chi You had 81 brothers, and was a grotesque looking creature: he had six arms, four eyes, the head and hooves resembled an ox and his head was made of metal (copper and iron, mentioned 銅頭鐵額).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chi_You (857 words)

	God is dead. Long live Kim Il Sung
		For the North Korean people, indoctrinated and blind to the outside world in their hermetically-sealed universe, have been brought up to believe that their impoverished state is a Communist paradise.
		The Koreans have never been told, for example, that it was a US-led consortium that was building two safe reactors under the 1994 framework agreement in which North Korea agreed to mothball its suspect nuclear programme.
		As a British journalist began explaining to a North Korean girl leafing through a brochure on Scotland that "Edinburgh is the Pyongyang of Scotland", the conversation was abruptly terminated by the minders.
	www.rickross.com /reference/nkorea/nkorea27.html (1606 words)

	A&E
		Hanguk is a group based out of New York City that performs traditional Korean dance and music in costumes that are breathtaking and with discipline that is practically otherworldly.
		In Korean mythology, the drum is seen as an earthly symbol of heaven.
		Indeed, the thunderous sound of the drums was intoxicating and all thoughts of trouble slipped away-replaced by the heady splendor of the intricate pulses.
	orient.bowdoin.edu /orient/archives/2002-11-15/ae03.htm (510 words)

	January 2002 AGGMAN Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While ancient Greeks may have accepted the fact that Gaia created changes to the Earth rather rapidly, modern geology is based on a recognition that it is the passage of vast lengths of time that allow many changes to take place, changes that have been going on for something like 4.6 billion years.
		Korean mythology asks you to imagine a mountain that is one mile high and made of solid granite.
		That, as described in Korean mythology, is indeed a very long period of time.
	www.aggman.com /0102_pages/0102carved.html (891 words)

	Lonely Planet
		According to the Koreans, the first of their kin was born in 2333 BC.
		Scientists with slightly less respect for Korean mythology believe Korea was first inhabited around 30,000 BC, when tribes from central and northern Asia stumbled on the peninsula.
		Stalin sent Kim II Sung (the 'Great Leader'), a young Korean officer from a specially trained unit of the Red Army, to take charge of communising the North, and he steadily ascended to the head of a separate government of North Korea, in defiance of a United Nations plan for nationwide elections.
	www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/North-Korea/historyandculture.aspx (1156 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames
		Mythology Notes present descriptions of gods, summaries of myths, and some historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts.
		Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon of the people refered to as Canaanites in the Bible, as recovered from the city of Ugarit in what is now western Syria.
		Korean Faith page includes the story of Princess Pari, as well as a general discussion of faiths native to Korea and the somewhat more recently imported religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
	www.myths.com /pub/myths/myth.html (12212 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Sins of the Son
		When it comes to Kim Jong Il, the truth is hard to locate, lost in the thicket of official North Korean mythology and the wild rumors spread by the South Korean media.
		In January 1978, while South Korean actress Choi Eun Hee was visiting Hong Kong, several men grabbed her and carried her, screaming and sobbing, to a freighter.
		Her husband, Shin Sang Ok, a prominent South Korean producer and director, was searching for her in Hong Kong when he, too, was abducted, knocked out with chloroform and shipped to North Korea.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40505-2003May10?language=printer (3381 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But, I was making it as a modernization of the myth of how the sun and moon came to be in Korean mythology.
		The title comes from a saying in Korean, which is a traditional saying that is equivalent to saying, "Once upon a time." But it's just like saying, "A long, long time ago," basically.
		The tale is about the beginnings of Korea, like who became the first Korean monarch, this kind of godly lineage to the king, but also about the nature of a bear that hibernates and a tiger that always roams around.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /071803/20030718_dip_angelakang.html (2638 words)

	The Asia Pages: What's going on on KBS MBC Radio 105.5 FM at around 8:40 a.m.? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Korean shamanism is equivalent to sorcery: the manipulation of invisible powers in accordance to the human will.
		Most Korean pastors -- including your radio witchdoctor -- are Korean shamans considered capable of conjuring elemental powers to their bidding.
		Why bash on Korean shamanism (mythology) when you can look at Christianity, which is based on Jewish mythology, in the same way...
	asiapages.typepad.com /the_asia_pages/2005/04/span_stylecolor_11.html (1171 words)

	Terra Nova: Re-advent of the DanGun in Korean VW
		Terra Nova: Re-advent of the DanGun in Korean VW Terra Nova
		So, much like the Korean creation story involved the descent of gods and elevation of animals to create the world of humans, so too are the animals/players here ascendant and the gods/companies somewhat fallen.
		It looks like the Korean developers are vulnerable to waves of co-ordinated (or even random) complaints, made worse by the fact that should they identify the organisers they now won't be able to ban them.
	terranova.blogs.com /terra_nova/2005/10/readvent_of_the.html (2975 words)

	Emptybottle.org: Decisions
		The standard Korean mythology (not entirely inaccurate, given what I've heard about Korean husbands' predilection for patronizing the sex trade) is that the primary reason one goes to Thailand is to indulge one's need for commercial fucking.
		Your wife is probably justified in her concerns if she is basing them on Korean husbands.
		The first thing we get asked by most Koreans arriving here for study is where they can get laid (not put quite like that, but that is what they mean), closely followed by where the casino is.
	www.emptybottle.org /glass/2003/07/decisions.php (639 words)

	ITCC Member Forum Articles
		The North Korean media have recently been quoting words reportedly spoken by Kim Il Sung: if he himself could not carry out "the final victory of the Korean revolution," then his son would; and if his son couldn't, then his grandson would.
		Ko Yong Hui was rumored to have lobbied vigorously in behalf of her son, using her unusually strong influence on Kim Jong Il to secure a place for Jong Chol in the country's leadership and to banish Kim Jong Il's own brother-in-law—who had been considered a possible replacement for the Dear Leader—from Pyongyang.
		Mount Paektu is a sacred mountain in Korean mythology, and is known as Kim Jong Il's birthplace.
	www.itcc.org /article.asp?artid=182 (1139 words)

	Flying Yangban: August 2005
		Koreans have had to deal with invasions or domination from China since at least 108 BC, when Chinese forces invaded and established military colonies in Korean lands.
		North Korean mythology is most closely connected with Goguryeo, the northernmost of Korea’s ancient three kingdoms, which occupied the northern half of the Korean peninsula and most of modern Manchuria.
		In 667 the Tang Chinese cooperated with the southern Korean kingdom of Shilla to destroy Goguryeo.
	gopkorea.blogs.com /flyingyangban/2005/08 (3604 words)

	St. Louis Independent Media Center – stlimc.org :: CPP-NDF (Philippines) Greet Comrade Kim Jong Il On His Birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under his leadership the Workers' Party of Korea, the Korean People's Army and the Korean people have stood as one in asserting national sovereignty in the face of numerous attempts at bullying by the imperialist powers led by the United States.
		Armed with the correct ideological and political principles, he has helped develop and strengthen the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Korean People's Army into a force that is ever-ready and capable to defeat any enemy that would attack and invade Korea and seek to reverse the victories of the Korean people.
		The struggle of the Korean people, like the struggle of the Filipino people, against imperialism is part of an ever-growing and intensifying international fight against imperialism and reaction.
	www.stlimc.org /newswire/display/1309/index.php (4239 words)

	Korean Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Korean Mythology is a mythology based on legends and folk tales from across the Korean peninsula.
		In Korean mythology, "Tangun", son of Hwanung and the first Korean Emperor of the first Korean dynasty, a half-human and half-divine, is regarded as the ancestor of all Koreans.
		Mago : Giant who became the island of Cheju.
	www.paralumun.com /mythkorean.htm (80 words)

	Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts
		Mythology's Mythinglinks: the Tigris-Euphrates Region of the Ancient Near East
		Bulfinch's Mythology, 'The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur'
		Bulfinch's Mythology, 'Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages'
	www.teacheroz.com /myth-legend.htm (599 words)

	Table of contents for Korean myths and folk legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Table of contents for Korean myths and folk legends / by Pae-Gang Hwang ; translated by Young-Hie Han, Se-Chung Kim, and Seung-Pyong Chwae.
		Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
		Contents Foreword by Stephen J. Reno vii Preface ix Translator-Editor's note xiii Introduction xvii A Prologue to Korean Myths xxv 1.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033210.html (297 words)

	Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Cultural Anthropology /Mythology /Korean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Guide to Greek and Roman Mythology An introduction to Greek mythology, with information on all the gods, heroes and creatures.
		Greek Mythology This is an introduction to Ancient Greek Mythology.
		Home Page of Korean Folktales - The web page author writes, "These stories may be used as resource materials to learn more about Korean culture reflected in old stories and enhance multicultural understanding.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{69634} (262 words)

	CanKor - 17 October 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United States is preparing a negotiating offer, to be presented for consideration by the DPRK at the next round of six party talks.
		A German businessman is standing trial in Stuttgart, charged of breaking weapons embargoes and entering into a deal to provide aluminium tubes to the DPRK for use in its nuclear programme.
		Curricula in pro- North Korean schools are being altered to remove elements of North Korean mythology about its history and leaders, as parents seek to give their children a more realistic basis in Japanese society without denying their heritage.
	www.cankor.ligi.ubc.ca /issues/138.htm (4278 words)

	CPM Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These images can be used for reprinting in magazines and catalogs.
		Once you have clicked on the image you can download it by going to the File menu and clicking on "Save As".
		Original Korean Version "Mythology of the Heavens 2: Phoenix Rising" © 1997 Hyun Se Lee.
	www.centralparkmedia.com /cpmcomics/cfpresskit.cfm?Cat=CMX_65702G (201 words)

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