「원천강본풀이」에 나타난 神格의 特徵과 意味

Abstract

The study aimed to explore the feature of the divinity of Oneuri in “Woncheongang -bonpuri” transmitted on Jeju Island. To understand Oneuri’s identity, it is necessary to look at the story of “searching for the parent.” Oneuri’s story of looking for parents is a journey to discover her past. Thus, we may argue that it is an act of finding the origin of the unbalanced life of the present by understanding the past through parents. Moreover, by compressing and grasping the overall trajectory of life from the mythical space Woncheongang to the “past-present-future” into one space, Oneuri can acquire the ability to read not only the past and present but also the future. However, in “Woncheongang-bonpuri” Oneuri does not inherit the parents’ divinity through the story of searching for them. This is because Oneuri returns to the way it had gone. If the journey to the Woncheongangcan can be called the story of searching for the parents, the return from the Woncheongang can be referred to as the story of “problem-solving.” Oneuri only delivers the facts witnessed in the Woncheongang and the answers from the parents but does not say or create a new fate. Particularly, considering the scene that Woncheongang was written after Oneuri becomes a goddaughter, Oneuri should be called not only a “transmitter” who unravels the source of the book “Woncheongang” on Jeju Island’s shamanism but also a “translator” who copies heaven’s knowledge into human language. This divine nature of Oneuri shows the process of accepting the fortune-telling book “Woncheongang” in shamanism on Jeju Island. Therefore, the myth of “Woncheongang-bonpuri” was a song with a ritual environment in order to establish itself as knowledge of radish. Despite the loss of the current performance environment, behind the great influence of the book “Woncheongang” on Jeju Island’s shamanism was the myth of “Woncheongang-bonpuri,” which reconstructed “Woncheongang” with mythos knowledge.