Eocheoguni-eopda is a near-twin of eoi-eopda. By the most widely told account, eocheoguni was the name for the handle fixed to the upper stone of a millstone. Just as the eoi named that handle, the eocheoguni too was the essential part needed to turn the stone. Without it you had nothing to grip, no way to grind the grain — only the option of standing there blankly before the millstone. Another account holds that eocheoguni referred to the small figurines set along the roofs of royal palaces. Known as japsang (雜像), these figures were said to give the building its proper dignity; a roof without them looked bare and out of rank — and so, the story goes, people called it eocheoguni-eopda.