Case file · Folklore / legend
Yeono-rang and Seo-nyeo: the sun goes dark
When a Silla fisherman and his wife were carried to Japan on a moving rock, the sun and moon lost their light, says the Samguk yusa, until a silk she wove was offered to heaven.
157 CE · 35.99, 129.44 · status: legend
The account
The tale is set on the Pohang coast in the reign of King Adalla. The silk was kept in a royal storehouse and the place of the rite was named Ilwolji, 'Sun-Moon Pond'.
The sceptical view
Read by some historians as a memory of migrants carrying a sun cult to Japan, and by others as an eclipse story.