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Jeongdeungsa temple - Dangun, figure of shamanism

Jeongdeungsa temple - Dangun, figure of shamanism

It is Dangun, the god creator of Korea, which would have withdrawn to the mountains to become an immortal spirit and thus would have "disembodied" in a mountain god at the age of 1,908....Thus in shamanism, Dangun on the end of his life, when he was assisted by a tiger and two servants, has been associated with Sansin (or Sanshin), the spirit of the mountain.