Cheoyong
Korean · demigod · unified silla · Recorded classification
THE ONLY RECORD IN THIS BATCH FILED AT unified-silla, AND IT FILLS AN ERA THAT HELD NOBODY. His answer to finding a demon in his bed is A SONG, and the song survives — the Cheoyong-ga is one of the few Silla hyangga that came down — and the dance is still performed. The record does not say what became of his wife, because the sources consulted do not.
Parentage
- parent: the Dragon King of the East Sea
Domains
- warding off plague
Relations
- faced: the Plague SpiritIn-batch.Reference treatment: Cheoyong confronts the Yeoksin, or Plague Spirit, found inside his marital chamber. (secondary)
Sources
- Cheoyong is the son of the Dragon King of the East Sea who meets the Plague Spirit in his own bed and drives it off by singing and dancing, and whose mask is hung on doors against disease.: Reference treatments of Cheoyong, of the Cheoyong-ga and of the Cheoyongmu. (secondary)