Cheoyong

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

• the Dragon King of the East Sea

Domains

• warding off plague

Relations

• faced: the Plague Spirit

Sources

• Reference treatments of Cheoyong, of the Cheoyong-ga and of the Cheoyongmu.