민간도교의 서사전통과 제주의 날개 달린 아기장수

Abstract

The epic tale of Agijangsu is the typical fury story of Korea. It contains popular psychology of desire for a saviour. Especially, the tale of winged Agijangsu is close to Zhenren(眞人) epic of private Taoism, both of which have relevance to internal injury of group originated from historic experience accumulation. It's because both of them appeared as a response to suppressed experiences by the power of the mainstream. The group received an internal injury dreams that a great saviour, all of a sudden, will deliver them from bitter memories. The desire, however, dies on the vine for reasons of internal or external causes, acquiring despair. Among the reasons of frustration, there are betrayal and conflict within group made by transcendental fear. In this case, though, an internal injury becomes more severe because of the sense of guilt for killing their saviour themselves. The rebels of popular religion who really took Zhenren epic as that of group guidance, making organization and tried to reform society have this history of frustration. The first type of epic tells that these experiences are strongly built into the people's own epic. On the other hand, other groups would introspect their internal injury and try to seek restoration through the time of discouragement and despair. Among Winged Agijangsu in Jeju, the second and the third type of epic show these efforts. The two epic tales wouldn't hide inner fear and don't bow the head in advance with fear. The transmitters of Winged Agijangsu epic share and debate the fear and panic of the world together through the form of storytelling. In this process, the spread of heroism would occur. Bitter despair in the first type represents an absolute saviour as an outstanding individual, therefore, whose death symbolizes the failure of salvation or the death of group. In the way that the group members participate in sharing and seeking fear in the second and the third type, that zhenren who cut his wings but having memory about his own wings comes under earthly life, that after his experiencing success and faith, leaving them, they maintain his mark, and especially that they stroke the sense of guilt of people who clipped saviour's wings for fear of the world, saviour's heroic character changes into symbiotic surmountable relationship and spreads into the whole transmission group. Winged Agijangsu in Jeju is as tragic and sad as that of the mainland. However, it is gorgeous in that the grief does not end frustration with the sense of guilt, and still reveals the powerful wait wanting a new saviour. That's why Winged Agijangsu epic has recreated through a new descriptive groping since modern and contemporary times.