Chapter 1382: Before Winter Comes (10)
One reason for moving the festival earlier was to see the leader of the Rooster Clan in person, so I had gathered some prior information.
The leader of the Rooster Clan, one of the Twelve Zodiac Tribes: Gye Myeongnim.
The sacred white rooster who announced the location of the golden chest where the founder of the Gyelim Dynasty was born and laid to rest.
A legendary national bird of Silla appearing in myths — a mythical Rooster Clan.
By current standards, a being from about two thousand years ago, not quite as old as the five-thousand-year-old tigers, but it wouldn’t be strange to call it a native lord of the Korean Peninsula.
“Moreover, the Rooster Clan was revered not only in Silla but also in the last dynasty as an auspicious presence. They foretold the king’s ascension and even used bronze chicken-shaped censers with rooster patterns at the Jongmyo rites.”
Considering that, their presence remains significant even now, but if they openly reveal themselves, they would surely display the power befitting a mythical Rooster Clan.
Though currently covering their eyes and hair in black, thinking of the name “white rooster,” might they actually be white like a white tiger?
Anyway, the tigers appeared, sparing me the trouble of speaking directly with Gye Myeongnim.
“Jo Yi-shin, did that fighting cock do any harm to you?”
“A fighting cock means a rooster, you know? I’m a hen.”
“Right, you’re a hen.”