성씨시조신화의 전승과 분포 그리고 문화권역

Abstract

This is to research the transmission and distribution types of the Myth of Family Name of the great grand father, and to divide cultural areas to study mythical context and its meaning. The myth is a series of stories about the great grand father’s born and the origin of the family name. It has a great value of myth. This study classified myths into 4 types by data; the descent of the son of god, born from an egg, born between human and god, born from the ground. This studied the background of a myth, a home of the family name, and groups of the family name Born from an egg type myth is alternated by the descent of the son of god type, flowed in, settled down and transmitted to the southern area centered in Gyeon-ju and Gimhae. It is distributed around Silla cultural area. The mythes of Hauem Bong and Papyeon Yoon in the northern area, and the myth of Namyeon Moon in the western area have been transmitted. After Parkhyeokgeose myth was created, Born from an egg type myth combined with new family groups and mythical characters and have been distributed to Gyeongi-do and Jeonla-do to continue to be a series of Korean myths. Contrarily, the myths of Gyeon, Namown Jin, and Choongjoo Eo, Born between human and god types, are settled down and distributed around Baekje cultural area. The mythical characters are transmitted to the myth of Pyeongang Chae in the northern area and that of Changnyeon Jo in the eastern area. After Seodong myth was created, the type was combined with new family name groups mythical characters and distributed to Ganwon-do and Gyeongsang-do to ontinue to be a series of Korean myths.