Case file · Folklore / legend
Heo Gyun at the Daegwallyeong rite
The writer Heo Gyun described in 1603 how Gangneung people fetched the mountain god of Daegwallyeong pass with banners and shamans every fifth month.
1603 CE · 37.75, 128.89 · status: account
The account
The god is identified with the Silla general Kim Yu-sin, later with the monk Beomil; the festival, with shamanic gut and mask plays, is now the UNESCO-listed Gangneung Danoje.