Jowangsin
Korean · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
THE MOST PRECISELY ATTESTED RITE IN THIS BATCH, AND IT IS A CUP OF WATER. A goddess of FIRE who is embodied in WATER, renewed every morning by the woman of the house, is the kind of thing a registry of cult practice exists to record.
Domains
- the hearth
Sources
- The goddess of fire and the hearth, held to be embodied in a bowl of water standing on a clay altar above the stove: the housewife rose early, poured fresh water from the well into the bowl, and knelt before it wishing for luck.: Reference treatments of the Gasin faith and of the Korean household gods. (secondary)