제주도와 오키나와의 무속서사시 비교 - 당신본풀이와 미야코지마(宮古島)의 후사(フサ)를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Having locally similar traits Jeju island and Okinawa show in common that there are various epics and myths based on shamanistic faith and they have fluently transmitted the epics and myths from generation to generation. Among those common things, the myth of village and the shaman rite - which show their serving a tutelary deity or an ancestor deity around the village community - in these two regions are compared in this thesis. The shaman epics sung during the rite make clear the origin of a deity and treat the relationship of the village and the deity and it of the deity and priest. It is tried to make clear the village mythological characteristic of shaman epics through the comparative study of Jeju island Dangshinbonpuri and Okinawa Miyako island Fusa which were transmitted from the rites of villages. As a result of the comparison Dangshinbonpuri sung in Dang rite of Jeju island with Fusa transmitted in Uya-an of Miyako island, I could see that the shaman faith, the myth and the ceremony of Miyako island kept up their shaman aboriginality through the strict transmission. But in Jeju island in which the village and the individual are differentiated, I found out the shamanistic faith and myths were coming to be individual from a group and studied how this affected village myths and rites. I considered that the synchronic and diachronic study is possible through the comparison of these two regions -the relationship of the village and the individual (family) as a group of faith and shaman rite and epics.