덕수리 불미 조상신 신앙 고찰

Abstract

This paper aims to examine how the ‘Bulmi Ancestral God’ belief transmitted in Deoksuri, Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo-Si can be positioned within the scope of Jeju Island’s shamanistic beliefs. This begins with the question of whether the ‘Dokkaebi belief’ transmitted in Jeju Island can be understood as a type of ‘ancestral god belief.’ The question is whether the deity called ‘Dokkaebi’ can become an ‘ancestral god.’ Deoksuri is one of the representative regions of Jeju Island’s Dokkaebi belief. The connection with ‘Bulmi’ is the main basis, but there is currently no remaining tradition of the village community-level Dangsin belief. Only the ‘bonpuri’ of the <Gwangjeongdang> and <Chugildang> remains and has been handed down. The main point is that neither <Gwangjeongdang> nor <Chukildang> were shrines that worshipped ‘Dochebi’. Some sources say that the shrine with the same name as the old place name of Deoksuri, ‘Saedang,’ is the <Deoksu Bonhyangdang>. However, if we analyze the ‘bonpuri’ of ‘Saedang’ in detail, it is more reasonable to organize it as ‘the Sagajip Gut’, rather than the bonhyangdang rite. The ‘Je’ that is transmitted as a ritual at the level of the Deoksuri Bulmi community was a very brief sacrificial offering with no specific name, and was performed by the ‘Bulmi owner’ who opened the ‘Bulmi Madang.’ It is difficult to find any other religious transmissions at the level of the Bulmi community. This can be understood as being due to the discontinuity and non-fixity of the ‘Bulmi Madang’. Although it can be called a community of occupations, it has the characteristic of not being able to guarantee constancy and continuity. However, it was confirmed that the ritual of worshipping the deity as ‘the ancestral god’ remains in the Seochon area of ​​Jeju Island when a household with an ancestor who participated in the ‘Bulmi Madang’ performs a ritual. The most strongly transmitted belief in Deoksuri is the ancestral deity of the Song family, ‘Duitharbang’. In Jeju shamanism, where a simple ritual is performed for a servant who died without descendants at the master’s house and the servant is worshipped as the household ancestral deity. However, it can be understood that the deity of ‘Dochebi’ was accepted and passed down based on the connection with ‘Dochebidang’ among the bonhyangdangs in Seochon, Jeju Island near Deoksuri. The representative evidence is that ‘wildfire’ is transmitted as the core motif of several tales related to ‘Duitharbang’ or ‘Songchip Dochebi’ in Deoksuri.