 Na Cheol, known for his role as a leader of the Korean independence movement from Japanese rule, founded the religion in 1909 as its "great teacher" ("tosagyo") and named it first "Dangunism" ("Dangungyo", Dangun religion) and then a year later "Daejongism" ("Daejonggyo").He said that it was a revival of "Goshindo" (古神道, "way of the Ancestral God"), the belief in the trinitarian god that was worshipped in ancient Korea.Some scholars have suggested the affinity to Christianity, though the ethical basis of the religion is similar to Confucianism.