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Siknyangi

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Siknyangi is a cat, a creature which, in early agricultural societies, guarded the food by hunting down rodents posing a threat to the food storage and lived in coexistence with humans.

Character description

The first syllable ‘sik’ of 'Siknyang,' the Korean word for ‘food,’ and 'nyang', abbreviated from ‘nya-ong,’
onomatopoeia of the sound a cat makes, have been combined to created the name 'Siknyangi'.

Ssalnyangi

Born of the rice grown by Siknyangi, Ssalnyangi means ‘rice cat,’ and has ears marked with traces of rice embryo

Ssalnyangi

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