minus-moscow:@thewinedarksea Mythology Meme↳ 8e. Demigods | DangunDangun (단군; 檀君) or Dangun Wan

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↳ 8e. Demigods | Dangun

Dangun (단군; 檀君) or Dangun Wanggeom (단군왕검; 檀君王儉) was the legendary founder and god-king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom, around present-day Liaoning, Manchuria, and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. He is said to be the “grandson of heaven" and “son of a bear”, and to have founded the kingdom in 2333 BC. The earliest recorded version of the Dangun legend appears in the 13th-century Samguk Yusa, which cites China’s Book of Wei and Korea’s lost historical record Gogi (고기, 古記).