갯벌지역의 어로활동과 어로신앙

Abstract

Foreshore is the background which is the home for numerous creatures and which has given birth to various fishery culture and transmitted it. Fishing people have lived on foreshore and created various cultural knowledge. Fishing techniques and tools have allowed them to survive in foreshore regions and fishing people have transmitted native culture which is involved with them materially or immaterially. In addition, through various rituals, they attempted to communicate with the supernatural beings and wished for a heavy catch and safe fishery. Foreshore fishery has accepted the ecological condition of foreshore just the way it has been. ‘Multae’, a biological time, is the criterion to judge the appropriateness of fishery; fishing people catch fish in accordance with it and conduct rituals. We can observed that biological time, fishery timetable, and ritual timetable are closely related. The characteristics of fishery faith in foreshore regions appear more concretely in comparison with the rocks on the sea shore region. There are more characteristics. Firstly, there is the correspondence among the rituals for each fishery. This shows the relation between the principle of foreshore fishery which uses the difference between the tide to catch fish and the demand for rituals. Also, fishery station work is conducted individually or in family has is related to it as well. Secondly, there is the continuation and change of foreshore ceremony. The traces of goblin offering remnant in the current foreshore ceremony display the process of ritual correspondence which is related to the changes of the method. The current foreshore ceremony, after the emergence of seaweed farming, has gained new momentum and is being transmitted, containing some of the existing contents. Through this, the continuation and change of foreshore ceremony can be observed. Thirdly, we can observe the active participation of woman. Observe the general aspects of community faith, it is quite remarkable that women lead the foreshore ceremony. For that, the identity of subject of fishery activities and the ceremony, the relation with the female productivity, and the relationship between the goblin faith and women can be given. Finally, there is evident customary sorcery religiosity. It is related to the sorcery thinking: offering sacrifices to the tide, staging and performing the calling the goblin (Mr. Jin and Mr. Kim) which is considered to bring a heavy catch, spreading sand from the foreshore of the town which had a good seaweed harvest. In addition, performing the seafood catching after the foreshore ceremony and performing simulated motions to bring up seafood unto the earth can be said to be based on sorcery principles.