Hwanung
c. 1281 CE – 2026 CEattested
Mount Taebaek, Korea
- Korean
Son of heaven who came down to a sandalwood tree with three thousand followers and ministers of rain, cloud and wind. He set the terms the bear had to meet, and fathered Tan'gun.
Known for
- descent to the sandalwood tree
- ministers of rain, cloud and wind
- the hundred-day trial
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.