Teojushin (Korean: 터주신; Hanja: 터主神) is the patron of the ground on which the house is built in the Gashin cult of Korea.
Compared with the worship of other Gashin, such as Jowangshin or Seongjushin, Teojushin is less known; still, she remains an important deity in Korean mythology.
Teojushin was believed to embody a pot holding rice, peas, or red beans.
The rice cakes were never shared; this is because the tteoks represented luck, and because of the belief that Teojushin was a greedy goddess.
[2] In Honam, the people believed in a male deity called Cheollyungshin, the god of the jangdok.
[2] In old Korean society, it was taboo to dig the earth within a house because the rage of Teojushin would come over the diggers.
Yoksim-maneun nae daegam (My greedy Teojushin) Tamsim-manen nae daegam (My greedy Teojushin) Yoksimi manko tamsimi manaseo daeyangpune galbijjimeul (Because of greed, she has rib jjim in a large bowl)
Jowangshin advised the Okhwang Chasa to capture Hwanguyangssi at sunrise, the only time he did not wear his armour.
Jowangshin had betrayed his master because he threw muddy shoes in the kitchen, and his wife, Makmak Buin, placed sharpened knives above the hearth.
When Makmak Buin heard this, she made hammers, saws, and an extraordinarily large number of other tools within one day, in addition to new clothes.
However, Makmak Buin said that she had to perform the mourning ceremony of her father, and secretly wrote a letter with her blood on a piece of her silken undergarment telling Hwanguyangssi to meet in the well of the Fields of Sojin, Sojinhang's homeland.
According to Makmak Buin, the solution would be for herself to eat food consumed by prisoners in a burrow inside a field full of canine feces for three years.
Hwanguyangssi was extremely agitated by this dream, and he reconstructed all of the Sky Palace in just four days, using the old rather than new wood, as Makmak Buin had said.
He ran to the Fields of Sojin, but found it heavily defended by the Obang Shinjang, the deities of the cardinal directions.
[6] Meanwhile, Hwanguyangssi and Makmak Buin turned into Seongjushin, the god of the house, and Teojushin, goddess of the earth.
The Seongjugut concludes with this: Seongjunimi bulanhamyeon Jishinnimi anjonhago (When Seongju is nervous, Jishin (Teojushin) is steady) Jishinimi bulanhamyeon Seongjunimi anwianjeonghashigo (When Jishin (Teojushin) is nervous, Seongju is steady and firm) Du gawangi habi doeya (Only when the king and queen of the Gashin are one) Han Namukkeuti Neul Nagilnagilhago (One tree's end is fortunate)