제주도 돗제 연구 - 구좌읍 김녕리 돗제 전승을 중심으로

Abstract

Dotje refers to the ritual of a sacrifical offering pork in Jeju Island’s shamanism. The pork taboo is the most important reference point in Jeju Island’s Bonhyang-dang faith. In this respect, Dotje, a ritual in which a pig is offered whole without any part missing, is a special aspect of the ritual. Dotje is a special case that began as a village community faith but has now transformed into a personal faith. The change in the Dotje ritual due to ‘the Jeju April 3’ and ‘the 4⋅3 Castle’. Through these changes, the Dotje has become a representative ritual of individual families. However, the dotje, which originated from the village community faith, is a personal faith but also shows aspects of community, and the multilayered nature of these religious characteristics remains in Gimnyeong-ri, a representative dotje tradition, and has been passed down to this day. In the case of Gimnyeong-ri Dotje, it has the characteristics of a regular ritual through a periodicity of 3 to 5 years. The Gimnyeong-ri Dotje is characterized as a regular ritual that is concentrated from fall to winter, and these characteristics appear to greatly contribute to strengthening community solidarity. It can be said to be an intangible cultural heritage with valuable significance in that it is a community ritual with the characteristics of a social safety net in the past and at the same time represents the prototype of a self-sustaining village festival in the present.