<해와 달이 된 오누이> 민담에서 ‘태양의 여성 상징’ 복원

Abstract

Types of 'brother and sister who become the Sun and the Moon' folktales, dealing with the creation of the Celestial body and its evolution are wide-spread ones. Among metamorphosis-types, autogeny-types, provision- types, and human-transformation-types, the last one brought the mythologists the curiosity to know why the two characters happen to be brother and sister siblings. With such inquiry, they have sought the answers from divine incest matters. Going with those previous scholars' approaches, I herein set the first aim to clarify those folktales rooted on 'the Sun and the Moon creation' myths having incest motifs. By means of comparative studies, my study starts with the Inuit's 'Moon rapes his sister Sun' folktale, since it is well-known for its sound inheritance of the archetypical 'incest taboo' motif. And I move onto Manchurian and Korean folktales, then scrutinize the Rumanian folktale named 'Sorele şi luna' as a showcase in which the mythos has been distorted in the way of intervention of the only God beliefs or the Unitarians' expectations. Besides, my second goal is to discuss on the female solar deity linking with the alternation of Sun and Moon which has somehow negligent up to now. From the mythology viewpoint, either myth or folktale of 'Sister Sun and Brother Moon' type has its quintessence in the rear part of the story. Both the sister sun's shamefulness in Inuit's folktale and the sister's shyness in Manchurian folktale are the femininity tokens enforced on from the patriarchal societies, it could be interpreted as a resistance against the oppressive male dominated society or disobedience the father's holy name that the acts and behaviors in which those sisters reject the lunar deity and ask for the exchange the deity with their brothers. Thus, trying to figure out the similarities between the Occidental and the Oriental minds at the primitive level, I am interweaving the well-known Greek tragedy <Antigone> narrative. This argument starts with an early recorded folktale about 'the Sun and the Moon creation', for the reason that the female solar deity shows up. Although Cho Hyun-Soul also attempted to link the <Oedipus> to the comprehensive examination of interrelated myth motifs of Northern Asian peoples, the interpretation of myth, especially on 'the disregard of the father's name(law)' in feminism regards is still at the threshold. From the prevalent academic viewpoints, my trial of introducing the Greek myths to locate the universality of motifs among 'Sister Sun & Brother Moon' could be evaluated as a mis-matched linkage. But as a female scholar, I hope that this article could be entitled to a challenge toward the current cosmic academic world and be understood as a decent inquiry on the chaotic hybridization of different studies.