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[chaz47]

Tangun myth and Native American cosmology? I'm not the most learned student of Anthropology by any means. But isn't it somewhat likely that those who migrated from Asia to North America via the land bridge had some common ancestry with present day Koreans?

What made me really consider this was the belief that many Native American tribes had that their ancestors were bears. Sounds very similar to the Tangun story, sans the garlic and the cave.

Just a thought. I have seen some fairly active discussions on similar topics in the past and wanted to know if anyone else had heard or thought of this.

If this totally lame then I apologize for wasting your time.

[Summer Wine]

No, I watched a documentary about some indian looking people. It was in korean, so I had to make a lot of guesses. I thought originally it was Canada or Alaska. The whole totem, tent, hunting issue. Turns out it wa China a small minority. The have shamans, etc. Everything is not much different from North America, so would it be surprising that a culture of 5000 yrs has absolutely no link.

How many links have we had in the past 1000? and we aren't the first regardless of what we tell ourselves today.

I had a friend from Fiji who met a woman from Botswana and her tribal language was the same as his vs a few differences. He was really suprised, so maybe we have always moved around and just are more aware of it now.

[Gorgias]

You might also be interested to know that there is a 'festival of the bear' in Greek mythology associated with Artemis. So I'm told, the bear skeleton and the human are very similar. If you are an archaic human, and there are no monkeys in your country, you might be pretty struck by the likeness of humans and bears.

Along the same line, pansori (sp?) sounds to me very much like native american song as might be heard at a pow-wow.

[Hollywoodaction]

There are also the Korean dog days of summer that correspond with ours (ours have something to do with Sirius, the 'Dog Star', while theirs means that they'll eat dog).

[Sooke]

I don't know about that, but have you ever noticed that traditional Korean music (the chanting stuff-not pansolri) kinda sounds like Plains Indians (Native North American's) traditional music? The chanting stuff, not the samolnori stuf. Seriously-listen to it.