{"id":5314,"date":"2026-04-27T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/samsin\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:32:56","slug":"samsin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/samsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5314\" class=\"elementor elementor-5314 elementor-2020 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10fdade e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"10fdade\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-herohlft0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"herohlft0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3ceb64 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c3ceb64\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96ae5e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"96ae5e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Samsin, Goddess of the Korean Tradition<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e45238a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e45238a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin (\uc0b0\uc2e0, literally &#8220;mountain god&#8221; or &#8220;mountain mother&#8221;) is the female tutelary <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> of mountains and fertility in Korean folk <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religion<\/span> and <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span>. She is <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The petitioning or invoking address to a deity or power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invoked<\/span> especially in rituals for pregnancy, birth and childhood, and she serves as a protector of the household.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-klsbdg01 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"klsbdg01\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-klshtm01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"klshtm01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"God \/ goddess: a personified supreme power within the pantheon of a culture, with clear areas of responsibility such as forces of nature, fate, war and fertility. 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Korean triad of goddesses, tutelary deities of birth and childhood\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/goetter_korea_samsin-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/goetter_korea_samsin-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/goetter_korea_samsin-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/goetter_korea_samsin.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32917199 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"32917199\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26e916cb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"26e916cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-253a40d4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"253a40d4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1200c304 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1200c304\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Samsin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11758e7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11758e7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is depicted as an old woman or goddess who watches over the mountains and protects women during childbirth. She is closely associated with fertility, childhood and the household.<\/p><p>In shamanic rituals (gut) Samsin is invoked to ease difficult births and to protect newborns from evil <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A bodiless being to which agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirits<\/span>. She is female, wise and motherly, often portrayed with white hair or white garments. Unlike Hwanung, who represents cosmic order, Samsin embodies concrete everyday protective functions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-159dcf9a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"159dcf9a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48cee66f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"48cee66f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Short Profile: Samsin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f50d82c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f50d82c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is documented in ethnographic collections and anthropological studies of Korean folk religion, but appears less in <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The era of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BCE to 600 CE.\" tabindex=\"0\">classical<\/span> literary sources such as the Samguk yusa. She is primarily a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span> <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> with strong regional distribution across all of Korea.<\/p><p>Scholars of religion such as James H. Grayson treat her in the context of the folk <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The merging of ideas or deities from different religious traditions.\" tabindex=\"0\">syncretism<\/span> between Buddhism, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A Chinese religious and philosophical tradition oriented toward the Dao, the Way.\" tabindex=\"0\">Daoism<\/span> and indigenous <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span>. Kim Tae-gon and other ethnologists documented active Samsin cults well into the twentieth century.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18613602 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"18613602\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-262b8a9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"262b8a9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Context<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46dcb7d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"46dcb7d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61d3ab3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61d3ab3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-117c166 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"117c166\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Period of the Texts<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73997a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73997a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The birth goddess. She protects newborns.<\/p><p>The continuity is remarkable and shows deep cultural rootedness. Even in modern times the memory is alive, often transformed, but recognizable in its basic features.<\/p><h3>Mythological Classification<\/h3><p><em>Samsin<\/em> (\uc0bc\uc2e0, &#8220;Three Goddess&#8221;) is a Korean birth and fertility goddess with roots in shamanic traditions. She exists in folk traditions of Northeast Asia and is venerated as a protector of pregnant women and newborns. Her genealogy connects her with prehistoric fertility cults.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d47b156 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d47b156\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff38c2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ff38c2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Area of Distribution<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e49fcc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e49fcc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin was not limited to particular regions but was universally known and venerated throughout the Korean world. Whether in urban centers or rural regions, whether among the elite or ordinary people, her spiritual significance was consistently acknowledged and respected.<\/p><p>This shows a central role in the cultural self-understanding. Trade, migration and cultural exchange spread and stabilized the veneration, which led to a remarkably uniform depiction across large geographical and temporal spans.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db03c39 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"db03c39\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-229a87b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"229a87b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f471fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1f471fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">State of the Sources<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36b1201 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36b1201\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The state of the sources on Samsin Halmoni is primarily ethnographic and only secondarily textual. The figure does not appear in the classical historiographical works such as <em>Samguk yusa<\/em> (1281) or <em>Samguk sagi<\/em>, but is transmitted through Korean folk religion (musok) and oral traditions.<\/p><p><span data-nosnippet>Important secondary sources include James H. Grayson, <em>Korea, A Religious History<\/em> (Oxford 2002), Laurel Kendall, <em>Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits<\/em> (Honolulu 1985), and Boudewijn Walraven, <em>Songs of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious specialist credited with mediating between humans and the spirit world.\" tabindex=\"0\">Shaman<\/span><\/em> (Leiden 1994).<\/span><\/p><p>David A. Mason treats the birth goddess in <em><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An incorporeal being to which effects in the world are attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">Spirit<\/span> of the Mountains<\/em> (Seoul 1999). The oldest tangible <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An ordered sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span> evidence comes from Joseon-period (1392, 1897) folk <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the customs handed down within a community.\" tabindex=\"0\">customs<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ae0637c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3ae0637c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31d07739 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"31d07739\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Name and Variants<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7642947 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b7642947\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a086266 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a086266\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is depicted with particular iconographic elements that are symbolically coded and carry deep meaning. These elements centrally convey the functions, sources of power, areas of responsibility and cosmic role of this entity.<\/p><p>The visual system allows the initiated and the culturally educated to grasp the deep meaning. Colors, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">sacred<\/span> objects or weapons, bodily attributes, specific accessories: everything is significant and traditionally handed down. The system remains stable and recognizable across generations, which points to fundamental archetypal structures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-709a44a8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"709a44a8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f585873 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2f585873\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Characteristics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70621c12 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"70621c12\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4296eb49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4296eb49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin was central to the religious practice and the everyday understanding of the Korean people. People turned to this entity in critical situations or at particular ritual times of the year, with structured rituals, prayers or <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An offering to a deity to express gratitude, petition, or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">offerings<\/span>.<\/p><p>The practice was precisely handed down and often led by priests or specialists. The continuity of these practices across many generations shows that she was regarded as effective and necessary. Her functions were manifold: preventive (warding off misfortune), healing (relieving suffering), transformative (accompanying transitions) and protective (continuous watching).<\/p><h3>Appearance and Symbolism<\/h3><p><em>Samsin<\/em> is depicted as an old or middle-aged woman, sometimes with three manifestations (hence the name). She is often shown in domestic shrines, accompanied by <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sign that stands representatively for a concept or meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">symbolic<\/span> objects such as wheat or rice. Her color varies, but white or red are common. She often sits on straw or is surrounded by symbols of abundance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44e71476 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"44e71476\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c1fc3f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3c1fc3f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Profile: Samsin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84f33b8e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"84f33b8e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-hqkdc67p elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"hqkdc67p\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The profile shows Samsin in six dimensions: her origin as a mountain goddess, the target groups of her veneration (women, those giving birth, parents), her <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The study of pictorial content and its meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">iconography<\/span> and attributes, her protective functions at birth and in childhood, and parallels in related cultures. These perspectives reveal her function in the everyday religious system.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-qh9oavvu iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"qh9oavvu\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-awzx8k2k elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"awzx8k2k\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tradition<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-x6rowhv0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"x6rowhv0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is geographically connected with mountains, especially with sacred mountains such as Baekdusan and local mountain deities. She is distributed pan-Korean, with regional variants. Her mythological origin lies in the proto-shamanic nature cult, probably prehistoric; in literary terms she is attested late (ethnographies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries).<\/p><p>In the history of religion she is understood as a specialized nature goddess who differentiated from the general mountain <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> into a fertility and birth goddess.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e3o4kxs iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8e3o4kxs\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08rkdgov elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"08rkdgov\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Samsin's Target Group<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-uwjelx8s elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"uwjelx8s\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin was venerated primarily by women, especially pregnant women, women giving birth and mothers. Occasions were pregnancy, birth, childhood illnesses and the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The ritual act by which a blessing is conferred.\" tabindex=\"0\">blessing<\/span> of newborn children. Midwives and healers also invoked Samsin.<\/p><p>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the religious acts of veneration for a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> was decentralized and often private, less formally institutionalized than state cults. In the twentieth century the veneration declined with modernization, but in tradition-conscious communities it remains present.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-jm2n74ec iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"jm2n74ec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8vufse4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8vufse4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Depiction<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-mwb9u015 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"mwb9u015\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is depicted as an old woman with white hair and white clothing, sometimes with gold or silver accessories. Her attributes are the blessing of children, often shown as an infant or child on her lap.<\/p><p>She sometimes wears a diadem or a crown to indicate her divine nature. In household <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An elevated place or table for offerings and religious acts.\" tabindex=\"0\">altar<\/span> images she is shown beside the mountain and the house. Her colors are white, red (for life force) and gold. The depiction is warm and grandmotherly, not frightening.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37ss2yr6 iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"37ss2yr6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3v0wp3wx elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3v0wp3wx\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Samsin's Effect<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-w3247g2m elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"w3247g2m\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Area of effect:<\/strong> Samsin (&#8220;Three Spirits&#8221;) protects pregnant women and newborns. They are not individual gods but a threefold power, often depicted as old women, midwives or ancestors.<\/p><p>In Korean <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span> they are invoked when a woman becomes pregnant, and their <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An assurance of well-being and protection, often in fixed verbal form.\" tabindex=\"0\">blessing<\/span> follows until the birth. They stand for the continuity of the family and the knowledge of the grandmothers, which is passed on from life into the next lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0qpjal9w iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0qpjal9w\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ndoih0o elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6ndoih0o\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Protection<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6684tyh9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6684tyh9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin is a benevolent, protective goddess. Veneration takes place through household altar rituals (kosa) before her statue or an image, through thanksgiving offerings after a successful birth, and through prayers for the blessing of children.<\/p><p>Pregnant women presented offerings (rice, sweets, oil) to ask for her help. After the birth a formal thanksgiving <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A gift to a deity to express thanks, request or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">offering<\/span> (Samsin-kut) took place. The veneration was private <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A short, personal or communal religious contemplation.\" tabindex=\"0\">devotion<\/span>, less publicly <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to a fixed religious sequence of actions.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>. Protective measures against evil spirits concerning the newborn were part of the comprehensive Samsin cult.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3lfi7x32 iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3lfi7x32\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0kg99ga1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0kg99ga1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Related Beings<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-n0fum6kp elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"n0fum6kp\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Comparable are other birth and fertility goddesses: Artemis\/Diana in the Greco-Roman tradition (goddess of birth and the care of children), Brigid in Irish <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the transmitted stories about gods in a culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">mythology<\/span> (goddess of the healing arts and birth), and Hindu goddesses such as Hariti (protective mother).<\/p><p>What they all share is the protection of birth, fertility and early childhood through female, motherly power.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a584676 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5a584676\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d0757bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6d0757bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Samsin, Parallels in Other Cultures<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60563f68 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"60563f68\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a93fdd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a93fdd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin as a birth-grandmother triad belongs to the East Asian tradition of collective female protective figures. Comparable are the Hindu Saptamatrika (seven mothers) and the Chinese Niangniang veneration.<\/p><p>In the Western spectrum one finds the Greek Moirai as three goddesses of fate and the Norse Norns, though without the specific infant-protection function of Samsin. Various cultures recognized the same thing and manifested it in local, adapted forms. Universal patterns are more significant than specific variations.<\/p><p><strong>Jewish tradition:<\/strong> In Judaism there is no direct goddess of birth, but there are protective figures such as the lewas (supernatural helpers in the Midrash) or Lilith (originally ambivalent, later demonic). Closer is the figure of &#8220;Lady Wisdom&#8221; (Chokhmah) as a motherly creative power, though not formalized as a birth goddess.<\/p><p><strong>Greco-Roman world:<\/strong> Artemis and her Roman equivalent Diana were goddesses of birth and the care of children. Eileithyia (Greek) too was specialized in assistance at birth. They were invoked by women giving birth, similar to Samsin. These goddesses, however, were formally instituted in public cults, not privately within the family like Samsin.<\/p><p><strong>Mesopotamia:<\/strong> The goddesses Nintur and Damgalnunna had functions as birth and creator goddesses. They were invoked to create and protect life. The Sumero-Akkadian tradition documents female protective figures at birth, parallel to Samsin&#8217;s function, but without the everyday household-altar privacy.<\/p><p><strong>India\/Asia:<\/strong> In Hindu traditions, goddesses such as Hariti, Kali (as protector) or Durga are protective figures at birth and in childhood. In the Chinese and Japanese traditions there are similar protective goddesses for fertility and childhood. The Chinese Guanyin in particular is invoked by women for the blessing of children, similar to Samsin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp95e2d07 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp95e2d07\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp3764de5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp3764de5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Three-Gods Grandmother and Assistance at Birth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cpf4dea1c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cpf4dea1c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp09c812b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp09c812b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samsin, also invoked in Korean folk religion as Samsin Halmoni, the Grandmother Samsin, is the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> responsible for conception, pregnancy, birth and the early thriving of children.<\/p><p>The name is usually explained as the three gods or the threefold <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An incorporeal being to which an effect in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span>, although the exact interpretation of the number three is judged differently in scholarship: some relate it to a triad of deities, others to the three domains of conception, birth and rearing.<\/p><p>In traditional Korea, Samsin was one of the most important household deities, precisely because birth and child mortality were central concerns of every family.<\/p><p>Her area of responsibility extended from the wish for a child, through the protection of the pregnant woman and safety at delivery, to the preservation of the infant in the first, most dangerous years of life. She was regarded as the one who literally brings the child into life and watches over its first steps.<\/p><p>This function made Samsin a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> venerated predominantly by women, within the sphere of the home, the family and the female world of life. Unlike the great gods of state or Buddhist cults, she was a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> of everyday life and of immediate bodily need.<\/p><p>Her significance points to a fundamental feature of Korean folk religion. Alongside Buddhism, Confucianism and later Christianity, there always existed a broad layer of household deities and protective spirits responsible for concrete areas of life.<\/p><p>Samsin is among the most prominent of these deities, because the domain she protects was indispensable for the continuation of every family.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp4de2475 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp4de2475\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp4a6a3f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp4a6a3f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Household Altar and the Rites After Birth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cpf6368c8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cpf6368c8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cpc8317be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cpc8317be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The veneration of Samsin was tied to fixed places and actions within the house.<\/p><p>Her place was traditionally a particular area of the main room, often a corner or a wall shelf, where a simple <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sacred place dedicated to the veneration of a deity.\" tabindex=\"0\">sanctuary<\/span> was set up. This frequently consisted not of an image but of a vessel of rice, a folded piece of cloth or paper and sometimes a jar: objects that indicated the presence of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span>.<\/p><p>The simplicity of this sanctuary is characteristic of Korean household religion.<\/p><p>Around the birth a dense web of rites unfolded. Even the wish for a child could be an occasion to ask Samsin for one. During pregnancy, rules of conduct applied that were meant to protect the unborn child.<\/p><p>Immediately after the birth, the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> was thanked for the happy delivery, traditionally with an <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The concrete object or food that is offered to a deity.\" tabindex=\"0\">offering<\/span> of rice and seaweed soup, the same soup that the new mother also received for her strengthening.<\/p><p>These food offerings were repeated on appointed days, for example on the third, the seventh, the fourteenth and the twenty-first day, as well as on the hundredth day and the first birthday of the child.<\/p><p>A period of seclusion followed the birth, in which the house was marked as <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to a fixed religious sequence of actions.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritually<\/span> protected and barred to outsiders by a straw rope stretched across the gate.<\/p><p>Into this rope different objects were woven depending on the sex of the child. These customs were meant to preserve both the vulnerable newborn and the protective presence of Samsin.<\/p><p>The rites show that Samsin was not a distant <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span>, but was closely bound into the bodily and temporal course of pregnancy, birth and early childhood. Her veneration was practical religion, embedded in the concern for the survival of mother and child.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp5733322 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp5733322\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cpb7605f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cpb7605f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Korean Shamanism and the Myth of Samsin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp0c7a9dd e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp0c7a9dd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp5fbcf4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp5fbcf4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In Korean <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span>, the <em>musok<\/em>, Samsin is firmly anchored, and a distinct mythic narrative is connected with her, recited by shamans, the <em>mudang<\/em>, at certain rituals.<\/p><p>This narrative has been transmitted in several regional versions, above all through the records of Korean folklorists in the twentieth century, who collected the oral chants of the shamans.<\/p><p>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> tells, in differing variants, of the origin of the birth goddess, frequently in the form of a competition between two female figures for the office of bringing children.<\/p><p>One of the two, often the younger or initially disadvantaged one, proves to be the rightful Samsin, who from then on guides children into life, while the other is entrusted with a less favorable domain, such as illnesses or the realm of the dead.<\/p><p>The narrative thus at the same time explains why birth and early death, thriving and misfortune, lie close together.<\/p><p>These mythic chants were recited in the context of <em>gut<\/em>, the shamanistic rituals in which the deities are summoned, hosted and asked for help. A <em>gut<\/em> to request offspring or to protect children bound Samsin into a larger series of deities.<\/p><p>In the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">study of religion<\/span>, the Samsin <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is a good example of the function of such narratives. It explains an order of the world, here the responsibility for birth and childhood, and anchors it in a prehistory.<\/p><p>At the same time, the multitude of regional versions shows that there was no <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the authoritatively recognized body of scriptures of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">canonical<\/span> text, but a living, oral <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span> rooted in the practice of the shamans. Samsin thus connects the plain household religion with the richer mythic world of Korean <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A religious system in which specialists interact with the world of spirits.\" tabindex=\"0\">shamanism<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36dd7469 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"36dd7469\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13760ab4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"13760ab4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Further Links<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28c87796 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"28c87796\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d6538df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d6538df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/korea\/\">Korea, Culture and Shamanism<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/en\/dangun\/\">Dangun, Founder of Korea<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/en\/mago-halmi\/\">Mago Halmi, Great Mother (related tradition)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-grl4kl40 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"grl4kl40\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bzsbfrmh elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bzsbfrmh\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sources and Literature<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c13224a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2c13224a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0eymh9ub elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0eymh9ub\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<footer class=\"iwg-literatur\" data-nosnippet=\"true\"><ul><li><span data-nosnippet>Walraven, Boudewijn: <em>Songs of the Shaman: The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A regulated sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural significance.\" tabindex=\"0\">Ritual<\/span> Chants of the Korean Mudang<\/em>. Harvard University Press, 1994.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet>Kim Tae-gon: <em>Han&#8217;guk musok y\u014fn&#8217;gu<\/em> (Korean Shamanism Research). Seoul National University Press, 1983.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet>Grayson, James Huntley: <em>Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated Compendium<\/em>. Routledge, 2001.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/footer>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsin, Goddess of the Korean Tradition Samsin (\uc0b0\uc2e0, literally &#8220;mountain god&#8221; or &#8220;mountain mother&#8221;) is the female tutelary deity of mountains and fertility in Korean folk religion and shamanism. She is invoked especially in rituals for pregnancy, birth and childhood, and she serves as a protector of the household. 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