Case file · Folklore / legend
Bak Hyeokgeose and the egg at Najeong
Silla's founder was found in a red egg beside the Najeong well, where villagers had seen a strange light and a white horse kneeling.
57 BCE · 35.82, 129.21 · status: legend
The account
The Samguk sagi (1145) and Samguk yusa tell that the horse flew up to heaven with a cry, leaving the egg, from which a radiant boy hatched. Excavations at the Najeong site found an octagonal Silla building that may have been his shrine.