古記에 보이는 聖顯의 구축 양상

Abstract

Religious narrative tends to be aimed at promoting piety, based on the ritual of worship toward gods. People hold ritual for god or the divine and revive the holiness of their existence through the sacred stories. Few materials concentrate on the construction of saints as <古記> among early narratives. mythological discourse. Although it is not certain which of them, Buddhist scriptures or mythologies, influenced it more, the illustrations included in it confirm that it pursues sacred narratives as much as religious narratives or mythological discourse. This article aims to embody the building of saints from the perspective of space and time. From the spatial perspective, <Gogi> makes up the narrative based on the relation between Cheonchuk and Silla. That is to say, while Cheonchuk was embodied as ideal space which established Buddhist sacredness, Silla was perceived as the place covered with ignorance, where Buddhist teachings were not transmitted. However, thanks to the help of Buddha and Bosatsu, the sacredness of Cheonchuk was transplanted to Silla, and in turn transformed into a space sharing deity with Cheonchuk. The sacred spectrum of <Gogi> displays the feature of running narratives on the primitive and mythological time out of the worldly time. It is unrestrained in manifesting the acceptance of Buddhism prior to China and confirming every corner of this land as the temple site and advent place of Buddha and Bosatsu. This results from the perception that the inclusion of Silla Buddhist history as mythological time is effective to enlargement of sacredness. It was revealed that <Gogi> was historical legendry which tried to inject incessantly Buddhistic sacredness in the narratives. 'Sin-i sagwan' in <Samgukyusa> in later times appeared actually in <Gogi>, and therefore it is considered related to the succession of the previous tradition of constructing sacred Buddhistic history.