Sŏnangdang (English spelling)

Japanese: ソナンダン（英語表記）sŏnangdang

One of the representative forms of Korean hall worship, Sonandan is a sacred tree covered with white paper or pieces of five-colored silk cloth and a pile of pebbles beneath it, which is generally found at mountain passes, at the entrance and borders of villages, and on roadsides at the foot of mountains. In Chinese characters, it is written as 城隍堂 or 垂石丹. The character 城隍 has been found in documents since the Goryeo period, but it was originally the god of Chinese city walls and the moats surrounding them, and later became the god in charge of peace within the area of the city. In Korea, this Chinese worship of the City God was first accepted at the official level, and was then syncretized with the worship of the mountain god, the guardian deity of the indigenous village, to give birth to the unique Korean worship of the City God.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

朝鮮の堂信仰の代表的形態の一つであり，一般に峠や村の入口と境界，山麓の路端にある白紙や五色の絹布片等をかけた神樹とその下の小石を積み上げた累石壇をソナンダンという。漢字では城隍堂，累石壇と表記される。城隍という字は高麗時代から文献に見いだされるが，元来は中国の城壁やそれをめぐる堀の神であって，のち城邑内の地域の安寧をつかさどる神となったもので，この中国の城隍神信仰が朝鮮ではまず公的なレベルにおいて受容され，さらに固有の部落の守護神である山神信仰と習合して朝鮮独自の城隍神信仰が生まれたのである。

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