Blue Cottage Taekwon-Do Newsletter
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Issue 2 ~ Volume 1 ~  December 2, 2006
HAPPY HOLIDAYS


It is our wish that each and
everyone of you have a happy and
safe Holiday Season. Thank you
for your continued support of Blue
Cottage Taekwon-Do



This months featured Pattern:
Dan-Gun










DAN-GUN is named after the
holy Dan-Gun, the legendary
founder of Korea in the year of
2,333 B.C.
Pattern Diagram











Movements – 21
Ready Posture - PARALLEL READY
STANCE

History:

The Wei Shu tells us that two thousand
years ago, at the time of emperor Yao,
Tangun Wanggôm chose Asadal as his
capital and founded the state of Chosôn.
The Old Record notes that in olden times
Hwanin's son, Hwanung, wished to
descend from heaven and live in the world
of human beings.  Knowing his son's
desire, Hwanin surveyed the three highest
mountains and found Mount T'aebaek the
most suitable place for his son to settle
and help human beings.  Therefore he
gave Hwanung three heavenly seals and
dispatched him to rule over the people.  
Hwanung descended with three thousand
followers to a spot under a tree by the Holy
Altar atop Mount T'aebaek, and he called
this place the City of God.  He was the
Heavenly King Hwanung.  Leading the Earl
of Wind, the Master of Rain, and the Master
of Clouds, he took charge of some three
hundred and sixty areas of responsibility,
including agriculture, allotted life spans,
illness, punishment, and good and evil,
and brought culture to his people.  At that
time a bear and a tiger living in the same
cave prayed to Holy Hwanung to transform
them into human beings.  
Sources:
http://www.seghea.com/pat/martialart/meanings.html
http://www.taekwondo-legacy.com
The king gave them a bundle of sacred
mugworts and twenty cloves of garlic and
said, "If you eat these and shun the sunlight
for one hundred days, you will assume
human form."  Both animals ate the spices
and avoided the sun.  After twenty-one days
the bear became a woman, but the tiger,
unable to observe the taboo, remained a tiger.
 Unable to find a husband, the bear-woman
prayed under the Alter Tree for a child.  
Hwanung metamorphosed himself, lay with
her, and begot a son called Tangun
Wanggôm. In the fiftieth year of the reign of
Emperor Yao, Tangun made the walled city of
P'yôngyang the capital and called his country
Chosôn.  He then moved his capital to Asadal
on Mount Paegak, also named Mount
Kunghol, whence he ruled for fifteen hundred
years.  When, in the year kimyo [1122 BC],
King Wu of Chou left Chi Tzu to Chosôn,
Tangun moved to Changdangyông, but later
he returned and hid in Asadal as a mountain
god at the age of one thousand nine hundred
and eight.
EVENTS
Dragon Star Martial Arts
Promotional Testing

January 4, 2007

Test 1 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
9th  to 8th Gup

Test 2 @ 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Adult Gups
9th - 2nd Gup

January 5, 2007

Test 3 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
9th Gups

Test 2 @ 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
6th - 5th Gup

January 12, 2007

Test 5 @ 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
7th - 1st  Gup