Seolmundae Halmang is the giant creator-goddess of Jeju oral tradition, so vast that Mount Halla served her as a pillow while her feet reached the sea. She raised the island by heaping soil carried in her apron, and earth spilling through the cloth's holes formed the hundreds of oreum that dot Jeju. Legends tell that she offered to build a stone bridge to the Korean mainland if the islanders would sew her an enormous pair of drawers, but the cloth fell short and the bridge was never finished. Sources differ on her death: the most common account has her wade into a fathomless pond to measure its depth and vanish beneath the water. Unlike the deities of the recited bon-puri chants, she survives chiefly in unsung legend rather than in a fixed ritual song, and scholars debate how far her figure was shaped by later folklore.