The occasion of the wedding between Peleus and Thetis was a time of great celebration. All of the gods attended except Eris, the goddess of discord, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Understandably enough, nobody liked Eris as she was always causing trouble. Because of this, she was rarely asked to attend important Olympian events.

Furious at having been left off of the invitation list again, Eris decided to make trouble. Into the banquet hall at Peleus’ and Thetis’ wedding, Eris threw a golden apple, marked “For the Fairest”. Of course, all of the goddesses wanted to claim it, the choice was narrowed down to the three most powerful and beautiful goddesses: Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena. Wisely, upon being asked to judge to whom the apple should go, Zeus refused to choose. No god wanted to be a part of this decision. So, it was decided that the only thing to do would be to put judgment on a mortal whose judgment the goddesses would agree to accept.

Zeus suggested the choice be made by a young man who was a superb judge of beauty, by the name of Paris. Paris was the son of King Priam of Troy, but he had been ordered to leave the city because of a prophecy that someday he would bring misfortune to his country and its people. Thus, he was presently working as a shepherd. Paris was very handsome, as any god, but he lacked intelligence and tactfulness. For if he had very much intelligence, he would have refused to be such a judge.

The three goddesses appeared in the meadow where he was guarding his sheep. None of the three goddesses left the choice up to their own personal merits. Instead, they began to bribe Paris in order to win the apple. Hera promised him the status of lord of Europe and Asia for the apple. Athena said that she would make him a great warrior for the prized apple. The third goddess, Aphrodite, promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world for his bride if he were to choose her as the “fairest”.

Paris, being more interested in women than riches of being a lord or the status of a great warrior, chose Aphrodite. Hera and Athena were greatly offended, which led them to be deadly enemies of both Paris and of Troy. This was only the beginning of Paris’ problems, as the most beautiful woman in the world was Helen, whom was already married. Aphrodite, not being much on marriage and faithfulness, took Paris to Sparta to meet Helen, who immediately fell in love with Paris. They fled Sparta to the city of Troy. When Helen’s husband, Menelaus, came home to find the two had eloped, he called on all of Helen’s suitors to help him attack Troy and kill Paris.

Thus, from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and the golden Apple of Discord thrown by Eris, we have the beginnings of the Trojan War.

Soruce: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/Erika.D.Mitchell-Deluca-1/PeleusandThetis.html

There are various tales about her:

Solmundae Halmang had difficulty finding clothes because of her giant size. She proposed to the inhabitants of Cheju that if they made her underwear she would build them a bridge to the mainland. However, her underwear required one hundred tong (the unit to measure fabric) of silk but when all the silk was gathered there were only ninety-nine tong and unfortunately the clothes were not made for the goddess. Thus, the bridge building had to be stopped. The vestige of the bridge exists on the shore of Chochon.

In the time of Solmundae, once after eating millet porridge, the Grandmother had diarrhea which created 360 mountains on Cheju.

Once upon a time, Udo (an auxiliary island) was not a separate island. One day when the Grandmother started to urinate and her powerful urine cut the land, which drifted in the majestic urine and became Udo. The chasm filled with her urine between the two pieces of land was so deep that whales and seals could live in it.

One day Solmundae Halmang and Solmundae Halubang (Grandfather) were so hungry that they went out fishing in Sopchikochi. When they arrived on the beach the Grandfather took off his trousers and jumped into the ocean between Songsan and Udo where the current was turbulent and the fish were abundant. As he started to churn the ocean all the fish rushed to the other side of the ocean where the Grandmother opened her legs as widely as possible and swallowed all of them into her vagina.

The Grandmother used to boast about her gigantic height. She tested whether there was any water on Cheju deep enough to cover her height. The water in Yongso was said to be quite deep but it barely reached around her ankles and the lake in Hongli reached her knee. At last, when she tried to test the depth of Mulchangoli she was drowned because the water in Mulchangoli was bottomless and so she sank down into the ocean.