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Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms)
Kim Busik and compilers · 1145 · Literary Chinese
Ancient text
Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms)
Kim Busik and compilers
The oldest surviving official history of Korea, compiled under royal order in the Goryeo dynasty on the model of Chinese dynastic histories. Its annals open with the foundation stories of Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje, including the full birth and flight of Jumong.
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The oldest surviving official history of Korea, compiled under royal order in the Goryeo dynasty on the model of Chinese dynastic histories. Its annals open with the foundation stories of Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje, including the full birth and flight of Jumong.
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Jumong, Son of Heaven and the RiveroriginBorn from an egg laid by the River Earl's daughter, Jumong grows into a matchless archer at the court of East Buyeo; fleeing the jealous princes, he is saved when fish and turtles rise to bridge a river, and he founds the kingdom of Goguryeo.
Bak Hyeokgeose and the Egg at NajeonglegendThe six village chiefs of the Gyeongju plain, seeking a king, see a white horse kneeling at the Najeong well beside a purple egg; the horse rises into heaven, and from the egg comes the radiant boy who will found Silla, crowned at thirteen with a queen born from a dragon.
Manpasikjeok: The Flute That Calms Ten Thousand WaveslegendKing Munmu of Silla asks to be buried in the East Sea so he can become a dragon and guard the kingdom; his son receives from a sea dragon a bamboo that is two by day and one by night, and makes from it a flute that drives off enemies, heals the sick, brings rain, and stills the waves.
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