Sobyeolwang’s Family Tree

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Family

• Cheonjiwang(parent),Chongmabuyin(parent),Daebyeolwang(sibling)— Consort

  Cheonjiwang descended from heaven and lay with the earthly woman Chongmabuyin, who bore him the twin sons Daebyeolwang and Sobyeolwang before the Heavenly King returned to his celestial realm.

Enemy of

• Daebyeolwang

  Daebyeol and Sobyeol competed in a flower-growing contest to divide the cosmos — the finer bloom would earn Jeoseung, the lesser Iseung. Sobyeol secretly swapped the flowers in the night, stealing the human world through deception while Daebyeol accepted the afterlife, making Jeoseung a realm of perfect justice and Iseung a world marred by trickery.

Rules over

• Iseung

  Sobyeolwang seized rulership of Iseung, the human world, after swapping flowers with his brother Daebyeol in the night, claiming the mortal realm as his domain and bringing disorder and evil into human existence.

Associated with

• Gwishin

  When Sobyeolwang won rulership of the human world through trickery, his corrupt governance allowed gwishin and malicious spirits to roam freely among the living, bringing evil and disorder to the mortal realm.