삼국유사 건국신화에 나타난 신성분류와 계승성

Abstract

Sacredness and secularity, as the ways that virtually reveal the internal sentiments of human beings, can be defined in the most incomplete and broadest way. In addition, historicized and then civilized human beings utilize them to define their pasts inversely. A myth is the way to keep them in the structure of knowledge and pass them to the future generation. Therefore, it is possible to properly understand the thoughts of the people living in the time, which was melted in myths when we correctly classify and analyze the process of the generation and development of divinity and secularity. This study in particular focuses on the point of the collision between literature and history among the many characteristics of myths. The main groups who were responsible for historicizing and transmitting myths could be explicitly identified, as these people tended to include what they had experienced during the course of forming a clan society or founding a country into their history, which also explains the process of mythicization. On the contrary, it is assumed that only the tale part of myths were developed into literature as either there were no transmission groups or once-existed transmission groups were diminished or disappear in later days. In this study, I intend to explain how myths acquired sacredness and later lost it again by analyzing the description of the [Gii] section of Samguk yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) and furthermore, based on the result of the analysis, one of the essential questions of our literature, that is, what parts of myths, if the tradition of our narrative literature was originated from myths, have been inherited to literature. In other words, this study aims at researching the principal causes of how myths were originally created from the life of ancient people and developed as a part of literary description. In addition, I will extract and analyze from scared narratives the conditions that reveal the generation and existence of such sacred idea in mythical narratives. For the change of the conditions for generation and existence was the course of sacralization and indicated the matter of the production and loss of sacredness. This study will present an explanation about how the figures shown in the birth myths of nations and other individuals written in [Gii] section of Samguk yusa were included in myths by what group’s thoughts and what view of the world was responsible for the creation, developing and disappearing of them.