Buyeo & Eastern Buyeo · Myth & belief
Habaek
The river deity whose daughter Yuhwa becomes Jumong’s mother.
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In the foundation tradition, Habaek rules the waters and tests Haemosu, who has approached his daughter. Yuhwa later gives birth to Jumong.
Legacy
He connects the watery world to the ancestry of a founder. Habaek is a mythic water deity, not a documented ruler of a human kingdom.