Cheonjiwang presides over Cheonsang as the supreme sovereign of heaven, descending to earth only when cosmic disorder threatens the balance of the world below.
Hwanin presides over Cheonsang, the celestial realm from which he surveyed the mortal world and judged it worthy of his son Hwanung's descent.
Mireuk placed copper pillars at the four corners and heaved heaven apart from earth, establishing Cheonsang as the celestial realm above and the human world below in the first act of Korean cosmogonic ordering.
When the tiger cornered them in the tree, Dal-nim and Hae-nim prayed to heaven, and a golden rope descended from Cheonsang to lift them to safety among the celestial bodies.
Jacheongbi ascended to Cheonsang and stole the grain seeds kept in the heavenly storehouse, smuggling them back to the human world to give mortals the knowledge of farming.
In the Segyeong Bonpuri, Mun Doryeong descends from Cheonsang to the mortal world to study, where he unknowingly shares his lessons with the disguised Jacheongbi before the two fall in love.
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