지리산 성모에 대한 조선시대 유학자들의 인식과 태도 －지리산 유람록을 중심으로－

Abstract

Mt. Jiri has been designated as the Namak since the Three Kingdom Period, and Mt. Jiri Sancheonje became the important ancestral rites of the state. In Goryeo Dynasty, Mt. Jiri was invested as the great king and Queen Wisuk, a mother of Wang Geon the First King of Goryeo was deified as the Mt. Jiri Sungmo. In Joseon Dynasty when Confucianism was the ruling principle, Sungmo faith was popular or sometimes declined. The reason why Sungmo faith was largely prevalent when war occurred is that the people’s anxiety about the country’s ruling class. Mt. Jiri Sungmo also known as the female mountain god located in Mt. Jiri Cheonwangbong, has been widely respected regardless of classes and regions. Confucian scholars strictly prohibited something undesignated in religious service regulations, ancestral rites and worship that were not hosted by a chief of ancestral rites (king, local Gwanchal-sa or eunuch) and had no Li-Yue(禮樂 courtesy and music). They sharply criticized the social conditions that Sungmo God was worshiped as Buddhism or a shamanist idol, resulting in demoralization and further damaging national politics. Among Confucian scholars who traveled to Mt. Jiri, there were those who offered an important letter to Sungmo God and prayed with full honors. They considered Sungmo as traditional a mountain god in charge of weather, not as the target that they prayed to for health and wealth, and they wished to look around landscape of Mt. Jiri and finish their travel safely.