Bak Bong-chun

“ On the way back, Today met Everyday
And told her what her parents had said.
She asked her the place where Jangsang was.
Today said, "I'll take you there." While going together
They met the giant snake, and Today explained what she had learned.
The snake let two pearls drop from its mouth and gave them to her,
At once became a dragon, and rose to heaven with lightning and thunder. ”

“ Today was kneeling on the ground. "From the human world a million leagues away
"One girl, just a girl, all alone and lonely, too,
"Crossed all sorts of hills and all sorts of waters and went through all sorts of suffering
"To come to this place because it was where my parents were from
"But they're as cold-hearted as this.
"My parents are going to be inside that gate
"And I've come all the way here, right in front of that gate
"And Everyday told me I'd achieve my dreams
"But the gods of Wontyeon'gang are so very pitiless." ”

“ Her parents said
"If Jangsang and Everyday become husband and wife
"They will know glory for ten thousand years.
"If the lotus-child lets its topmost flower be plucked
"And gives it to the first person it meets,
"Every other branch will bloom in splendor.
"The giant snake should have had only one pearl
"But it was too greedy and insisted on three.
"That is why it could not become a dragon. If it gives away two of the pearls
"To the first person it meets, it will be a dragon soon.
"Once you have those pearls and that flower, you will be a goddess, too." ”

“ She found the giant snake rolling about here and there.
They greeted each other and names were exchanged; she told the snake what had happened so far.
"What do I need to do to go to Wontyeon'gang?
"Could you give me directions?" said Today.
"It's nothing difficult to give you directions.
"But could you do me a favor, too?" said the snake.
"What kind of favor would that be?"
"It's just that for all the other snakes
"Having just one pearl in its mouth is enough
"To transform into dragons and rise into heaven. ”

“ The expression is doubly strange because more detailed versions of the Cheonji-wang bon-puri make it clear that far from being a "prison in the earth," the realm of the dead is actually located above the earth.↑ The meaning of suri is unclear, and left transliterated in the Japanese transliteration. ”

“ The court servant ladies were giddy with joy, as if they had returned from the place of death.
They thanked her a hundred times, and said that up to Wontyeon'gang
They would give her company and show her the way. ”