New Goddesses on Mt. Paektu – Transformation, Myth and Gender in Korean Landscape

Abstract:

Mountain worship has always been one of the central features of Korean cultural landscape.
While specific traditions of mountain culture have been utilized by North Korea’s leadership
for the purpose of promotion of the state ideology, in South Korea mountain culture has
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