Yeomra
Korean · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
NO CROSS-TRADITION EDGE to the Hindu Yama or to any Chinese or Japanese counterpart the corpus holds. The name travelled from Sanskrit through Chinese into Korean and the fact is in the etymology, which is where this programme has put such facts since lane 13. TEN KINGS AND THE CORPUS HOLDS ONE: the other nine are a census row.
Domains
- judgement of the dead
Relations
- served by: GangnimIn-batch.Reference treatment: among Yeomra's attendants is the famous death messenger Gangnim. (secondary)
Sources
- Yeomra is the king of the Korean underworld, fifth of its ten kings, who judges the dead.: Reference treatments of Yeomna and of the Korean underworld. (secondary)