Princess Bari
Korean · mortal · mythic · Recorded classification
TYPE mortal AND NOT deity, DELIBERATELY. In this schema the type is a function of descent, and she is a king's daughter; what she BECOMES is on the lifecycle, where the tradition puts it. That is the rule lanes 16, 17 and 18 each lost a test cycle to and lanes 19 to 23 have applied before authoring. THE CORPUS HELD SIX FIGURES FROM THE JEJU BON-PURI TRADITION AND NOT THE ONE THE SHAMANS SAY IS ABOUT THEM. Her regional names are recorded as aliases: Bari Gongju in the Seoul tradition, Bari-degi and Biri-degi in Honam and on the east coast.
Domains
- guidance of the dead
- healing
Relations
- journeyed to the realm of: YeomraIn-batch.Reference treatment: she undertakes a perilous journey to the Underworld to obtain the life-restoring Water of Revival. (secondary)
Sources
- Princess Bari is the abandoned seventh daughter who journeys to the underworld for the Water of Revival, becomes the goddess of the afterlife and healing, and is the origin story Korean shamans tell about themselves.: Reference treatments of Bari Gongju and of the Barigongju bon-puri. (secondary)