Ironically I was actually thinking of New Orleans as I wrote that. XD Yeah, Korea is mostly mountainous rather than swampy, and we have seasonal torrential rains, so we need to worry about shallow graves more than low ones.
If you like the roundness I give you... boob mounds! (Scroll down about halfway for pictures.) Some of these mounds absolutely dwarf people, as you can see.
The last double mounds belong to King Gongmin and his famously beloved queen, Princess Noguk. She was a Mongolian princess from back when that country had Korea under its thumb. The legend goes that she loved him deeply and encouraged him to seek greater independence from her home country, and even fought off assassins who attacked him. (Never mess with a Mongolian woman.) Tragically she died giving birth to his child, together with the baby, and Gongmin refused to remarry or to sleep with any other woman. He was said to have had sex with plenty of young men, though, so we're probably looking at a bi guy or a gay man with one exception. The pressure to provide a royal heir became too great after about a decade or so, and he took on four royal consorts and concubines. It's said he never touched them, though, and some accounts say the one woman who eventually gave birth to his son resembled the late princess. (It's disputed whether the child was his son at all, seeing how she wasn't one of his wives but another man's servant.) So yeah, of course he's going to be buried next to his late wife. He spent a lot of resources on his and the princess' final resting place at a time when his kingdom was already in decline, and contributed to the formal demise of his line less than twenty years after his death. And that's the sad love story behind the boob mounds of King Gongmin and Princess Noguk.
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Ironically I was actually thinking of New Orleans as I wrote that. XD Yeah, Korea is mostly mountainous rather than swampy, and we have seasonal torrential rains, so we need to worry about shallow graves more than low ones.
If you like the roundness I give you... boob mounds! (Scroll down about halfway for pictures.) Some of these mounds absolutely dwarf people, as you can see.
The last double mounds belong to King Gongmin and his famously beloved queen, Princess Noguk. She was a Mongolian princess from back when that country had Korea under its thumb. The legend goes that she loved him deeply and encouraged him to seek greater independence from her home country, and even fought off assassins who attacked him. (Never mess with a Mongolian woman.) Tragically she died giving birth to his child, together with the baby, and Gongmin refused to remarry or to sleep with any other woman. He was said to have had sex with plenty of young men, though, so we're probably looking at a bi guy or a gay man with one exception. The pressure to provide a royal heir became too great after about a decade or so, and he took on four royal consorts and concubines. It's said he never touched them, though, and some accounts say the one woman who eventually gave birth to his son resembled the late princess. (It's disputed whether the child was his son at all, seeing how she wasn't one of his wives but another man's servant.) So yeah, of course he's going to be buried next to his late wife. He spent a lot of resources on his and the princess' final resting place at a time when his kingdom was already in decline, and contributed to the formal demise of his line less than twenty years after his death. And that's the sad love story behind the boob mounds of King Gongmin and Princess Noguk.