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Article: Songha Sindang: the tutelary shrine of T'aeha Village, Ullung Island, Korea.
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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The cult practiced at the tutelary shrine of T'aeha Village, Ullung Island (Ullung-do) is one of the most unique village cults in Korea, combining features of a tutelary cult and a cult to propitiate vengeful spirits of the dead. My own interest in the shrine and its cult dates back to 1982, when I was conducting a general survey of the religious situation of Ullung-do. At that time, I had been surprised by the fact that the T'aeha Village shrine looked strikingly like a small Shinto shrine, and that the two spirits enshrined inside it, a male and a female youth, seemed to be suspiciously like Izanagi and Izanami, the progenitors of the Japanese archipelago. These two ...