Baekjut, also called Geumbaekjo, is the founding goddess of the Songdang bonhyangdang, the mother-shrine from which many of Jeju's village guardian cults trace descent. In the Songdang bon-puri she comes from across the sea, a deity of settled agriculture, and marries Socheon-guk, the hunter-god native to the district. When she urges him to take up farming and he instead devours a whole ox and returns to the chase, the two quarrel and separate. Their numerous children scatter across the island to become the bonhyang gods of its several villages, so that Baekjut is venerated as the ancestress of a wide network of local deities. Her shrine at Songdang remains among the most important ritual centres of Jeju village religion.