홍산문화로 본 선사시기 동북아지역 민족의 곰토템 연구

Abstract

Hongshan culture is closely connected to the Ancient Korean culture. The Korean nation originally belongs to the ethnic groups in Altai. In the process of moving south from Altai mountains and Lake Baikal, the Korean nation gradually separated from the altai tribe. After setteled in the southwest(Liaodong area) of the northeast part in China and north of the Korean peninsula, they developed farming culture and bronze culcure there. As an important archetype of Korean nationality in ancient mythology, bear totem has exerted a far-reaching influence on Korean literature. Under the general rules of literature prototype, the bear totem occurred in many narratives in alternate mode and deformation. Considered sacred among Korean nation, bear turned to the most representative prototype of “death and rebirth”. Bear’s cyclic hibernation was considered sacred among primitive tribal people, and bear was seen as the archetype of “death and rebirth”.