Dragon Lord of Lạc
Vietnamese · demigod · Hồng Bàng period — mythic dawn of the Lạc Việt · Recorded classification
Progenitor demigod (offspring of dragon and divine lineages). English title leads name.primary; native Lạc Long Quân (貉龍君) in alt. His personal name is given as Sùng Lãm.
Domains
- water and sea
- dragon lineage
- ancestry of a people
Powers
- Slays the great fish-demon, fox-spirit and tree-spirit plaguing the land
- Begets a hundred sons from a single sac of eggs with Âu Cơ
Epithets
- 貉龍君 'Dragon Lord of Lạc' — progenitor of the Vietnamese peopleLĩnh Nam chích quái; Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (primary)
- 崇纜 Personal name of the Dragon Lord, son of Kinh Dương VươngĐại Việt sử ký toàn thư (Ngoại kỷ) (primary)
Relations
- spouse: Mountain Fairy MotherReciprocal of vietnamese_au_co.spouse — Their hundred sons, born of one egg-sac, founded the Hung line; the pair parted, fifty sons going to the mountains with her, fifty to the sea with him.Linh Nam chich quai, 'Truyen ho Hong Bang' (15th c.) (primary)
Sources
- Lạc Long Quân, son of Kinh Dương Vương and grandson of the dragon-line, is the dragon-progenitor who with Âu Cơ founds the Lạc Việt people.: Lĩnh Nam chích quái, 'Họ Hồng Bàng', 14th–15th c. (primary); Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, outer annals, 1479 (primary)
- Vietnamese trace their descent from him and Âu Cơ as 'children of the Dragon and the Fairy' (con Rồng cháu Tiên).: Keith Weller Taylor, The Birth of Vietnam, University of California Press, 1983, ch. 1 (secondary)