[Korean] Founder of the Kaya kingdom in the first century CE. According to legend, the area in the south central Korean peninsula was first ruled by nine elders, but there was no king. One day a voice spoke from heaven at a place called Kuji (meaning "delicious turtle" in Korean, it was the name of an area and a mountain). Two or three hundred people gathered there, along with the three elders. The voice instructed them to go to the top of the mountain, dig up some earth, dance and sing a song now known as Kujiga. They did as they were instructed and a plum-colored cord descended from heaven. At the end of the cord was a gold chest, and when they opened the chest they discovered six golden orbs. The elders brought the chest home, and the next day they opened up the chest to discover that the orbs had transformed into a baby boy. The boy grew quickly (a sure sign of a hero) and reached a height of nine feet. When the moon waxed to its fullest that month, the boy--who was now called Suro--came...
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