Search results for "Korean mythology" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Korean mythology represents Dangun Wanggeom as the founder of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea, in present-day Liaoning, Manchuria in the ...
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  • Fènghuáng; Japanese: 鳳凰 hō-ō; Korean: 봉황 bonghwang; Vietnamese: ... divine mythical creatures of ancient Chinese mythology. ...
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  • dragon plays an integral part in creation mythology. Generally, the oriental ... ==Chinese mythology and culture== |left|250px|Unlike the Western dragon ...
    21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
  • * Polynesian mythology : mana * Australian Aboriginal mythology : maban * Egyptian mythology : ka ...
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  • the personification of heaven in Greek mythology, dominated by the light ... In the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, the planet ...
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  • images, sculpture, dance, visual mythology, and symbols deriving from ... Korean Buddhist art generally reflects an interaction between Chinese ...
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  • and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one of the ... earliest mention of Jumong. Jumong is the Korean transcription of the hanja ...
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  • when the Megalithic Culture was prominent on the Korean Peninsula. The sites were designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. Most Korean dolmen ...
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  • In traditional Korean society, when a man or woman matured to a marriageable ... Since the emergence of the mythology of romantic love in the Christian ...
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  • among themselves and possibly with the Korean peninsula. The Jomon people ... between the Japanese islands and the Korean peninsula. The people of ...
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  • A mystical, mythical, or legendary creature is a creature from mythology ... — have their origin in traditional mythology and were at one time believed ...
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  • In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, the tapir is named after a beast from Chinese mythology. A feature of this mythical creature is a snout like ...
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  • Turkish troops fought on behalf of the United Nations during the Korean War in 1950-1953 and joined NATO in 1952. Igor Torbakov, January 10, 2003 ...
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  • accepted nomenclature. In Roman mythology, Neptune was the god of ... as the “sea king star” in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese ...
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  • * Chuseok (추석/秋夕; Autumn Eve), Korean variant of the Mid-Autumn ... Anderson Turner, Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Oxford University Press ...
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  • monarchs of Indian history and mythology ("Dharma kings" ... *Gung Ye (ruled 901–918), a Korean warlord and king of short-lived ...
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  • words "rabbit of the moon." A Korean myth similar to the Japanese ... rabbits to show off their power. In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of four hundred ...
    28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
  • While most Japanese and Korean dictionaries are arranged according ... quot; and ranges from classical mythology to relatively recent literature ...
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  • The prevailing mythology in Japan has portrayed the Ainu as a race ... new wave of immigration, probably from the Korean Peninsula, some 2,300 years ...
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  • Venetia, who was interested in classical mythology as well as astronomy, suggested ... Lowell. In the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the name was translated ...
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