Yeomra’s Connections

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Rules over

• Gangrim

  Gangrim captured the false king of the underworld and restored cosmic order, after which Yeomra appointed him chief of the Jeoseung Saja.

• Jeoseung

  Yeomra presides over Jeoseung as its supreme ruler, holding court in the underworld where he judges all souls brought before him by the Jeoseung Saja.

• Jeoseung Saja

  The Jeoseung Saja serve as Yeomra's death emissaries, escorting souls from the living world to his court in Jeoseung for judgment.

• Myeongbu

  Yeomra presides over the Myeongbu, the underworld bureaucracy of scribes, officials, and judges who maintain records of the dead and administer the courts of Jeoseung.

Member of

• Siwang

  Yeomra serves as the fifth and most powerful of the Siwang, the Ten Kings who preside over the courts of the Korean underworld.

Equivalent to

• Emma-O(Japanese),Yama(Buddhist),Yama(Hindu),Yama(Tibetan),Yanluo Wang(Chinese)

  The Vedic lord of the dead traveled the Silk Road with Buddhism — becoming Yanluo Wang in Chinese courts of hell, Emma-Ō in Japanese judgment halls, Yeomra in Korean underworld tribunals, and Yama in Tibetan bardo visions, each culture reshaping the same dread judge to fit its own afterlife.

Associated with

• Barigongju

  In the Barigongju muga, the Abandoned Princess journeyed to Jeoseung and petitioned Yeomra for the Water of Life to heal her dying parents. Yeomra granted her request after she completed years of service in the underworld.

• Jacheongbi

  Jacheongbi descended into Jeoseung to retrieve Mun Doryeong's soul, wielding the flowers of life and death to overcome the powers of Yeomra's realm and restore her lover to the world of the living.

• Saengsabu

  Yeomra consults the Saengsabu before dispatching the Jeoseung Saja to collect each soul whose allotted lifespan has expired, and when Gwasyang's name appeared in its pages yet he refused to die, the underworld's order was thrown into crisis.