韓ㆍ臺 洪水男妹婚神話의 敍事構造 考察

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to: (i) comparison of myth of brother-sister got married in flood myth between Korea and Taiwan for sketching the reason of a human universality origins in flood myth; (ii) we talked about the origin of flood myth of brother-sister who got married were belonged to continental type and island type. Flood myth of in Korea formed reputation to speak under the influence of China, and this study discoursed the process of myth of brother-sister got married which in flowed from China and received by Korea. The myth date back to the minority nationality regions of south west China, and appeared largely in literature from the late Warring States period to the tang dynasty, and then in flowed to Korea during the China-Korea dense exchange. Comparision of myth between in Korea afferented from china and Tang dynasty “YiZhi alone” Since ’ myth putted into writing in Japanese colonial era, therefore, the study of aborigins myth became a popular subject and published numerous related literature. Moreover, aborigins showed very high similarity of the content in common subject, but affiliated content showed all ethnic group’s characteristics. In narrative form of flood myth of brother-sister got married, the first half was nearly same between Korea and Taiwan which told about flooding and destroying the world completely. Finally, the only both brother and sister escaped to the high mountain for prolonging human being’s life and they planed to marry. However, the content of last half was entirely different. In Korea, the story content was examined in order to break the taboo against marriage between brother and sister and obtain the proof which agreed by Destiny. However, in Taiwan, brother and sister’s marriage gave birth to unhealthy progeny, and sometimes produced nonhuman animals. Marriage between brother and sister was considered as the consequences of violation of taboo, and had to go through the god of gods help and guidance before healthy children was produced. In summary, this study was conducted to discuss three important parts. First, the function of flooding was the relationship of destruction and regeneration and common elements; however, there was more punishment element in the reason of flooding in aborigins of Taiwan. Second, when flooding came, brother and sister’s survival means was all refuging mountains; however, there was more escape element using mortar on wood in aborigins of Taiwan. Third, according to the matter of brother and sister’s marriage, Korea conducted the experiment for asking godsend using positive attitude, however, Taiwan waited and hoped the conditions which got better under the attitude of believing god-help.