Mun-doryeong
Jeju Island shamanism · deity · Jeju Island shamanism traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Mun-doryeong, 'Young Master Mun', is the heavenly youth whose descent to study on earth sets the Segyeong bon-puri in motion. Jacheongbi meets him at a washing-place, is smitten, and follows him to school disguised as a boy; their long, interrupted courtship, marked by tests, deceptions and separations, forms the emotional core of the chant. In the tradition's characteristic pattern he is often the more passive and hapless of the pair, saved and reclaimed by Jacheongbi's resourcefulness. Reunited with her in heaven at last, he is enthroned as Sang-segyeong, the upper god of the grain harvest, ranked above his wife the middle goddess in the triad of farming deities.
Domains
- agriculture and grain
Powers
- preside over the ripening of the upper grain
Epithets
- 상세경 — Sang-segyeong, the Upper Goddess/God of FarmingHyun Yong-jun, Jeju-do musok jaryo sajeon (Seoul: Singu Munhwasa, 1980) (primary)
Relations
- spouse: JacheongbiUnited with Jacheongbi in heaven after their long separation.Hyun Yong-jun, Jeju-do musok jaryo sajeon (Seoul: Singu Munhwasa, 1980) (primary)
Sources
- Mun-doryeong is the heavenly youth beloved of Jacheongbi in the Segyeong bon-puri who becomes Sang-segyeong, the upper god of farming.: Hyun Yong-jun, Jeju-do musok jaryo sajeon [Dictionary of Jeju Shamanic Materials] (Seoul: Singu Munhwasa, 1980) (primary)