Dangun vs Hwanung

The son of the heavenly Hwanung and the bear-woman Ungnyeo, who in the Samguk Yusa founds the kingdom of Joseon (Gojoseon), rules for fifteen hundred years, and at last becomes a mountain god; honored as the founding ancestor of the Korean people.

Son of Hwanung, the son of the Lord of Heaven, and Ungnyeo, the bear who became a woman (Samguk Yusa, Book 1).

Iryeon's *Samguk Yusa* gives two accounts. From a Chinese 'Book of Wei' it quotes that two thousand years earlier Dangun Wanggeom set his capital at Asadal and founded a state called Joseon, in the time of the sage-emperor Yao. From the Korean 'Old Record' it tells the full myth: born of Hwanung and Ungnyeo, Dangun made his capital at Pyongyang in the fiftieth year of Yao, called his state Joseon, later moved to Asadal on Mount Baegak, and ruled for fifteen hundred years. When the Zhou king enfeoffed Gija in Joseon, Dangun moved away, returned to Asadal, and became a mountain god, having lived 1,908 years. Iryeon himself notes that the traditional year does not match Yao's reign.

The son of the Lord of Heaven who descends to Mount Taebaek with three thousand followers and the ministers of wind, rain, and clouds, founds the 'City of God' beneath the sacred altar tree, and fathers Dangun with the bear-woman Ungnyeo.

Son of Hwanin, the Lord of Heaven, by a secondary wife (Samguk Yusa, Book 1).

In the *Samguk Yusa* Dangun myth, Hwanung, son of the Lord of Heaven, receives three heavenly seals from his father and descends with three thousand followers to the summit of Mount Taebaek, beneath the sacred altar tree (*Sindansu*). He calls the place Sinsi, the 'City of God', and is called Heavenly King Hwanung. With the Wind Earl, the Rain Master, and the Cloud Master, he takes charge of grain, life, sickness, punishment, and good and evil, some three hundred and sixty human affairs in all, and rules and civilizes the world.