고려궁정잔치노래와 무녀의 사랑노래

Abstract

The Song of the Koryo dynasty was known as a folk song of an anonymous person. But it is not a folk song but a song of shaman. The words of it are related with Shamanism. The Shaman song was created by female shaman, because the speaker of the poems uses woman's manner of speaking. The Shaman song had two kinds of love song. One was sad love song which a female confess her devotion to the God. And the other was sensual love song which man and female loves each other with strong carnal appetites. It induces pleasant laughing. So the love song has not a lustfulness but a delight. It is supposed that the sensual human being's love was made by the female shaman who wanted to delight her lover God. In Koryo dynasty, there was Korean traditional prayer, Byeol Ki Eun which prays for longevity of King and peaceful reign of the kingdom. When the prayer was over, there was female concert. It was performed by the professonal beauty entertainer, Kisaeng who lives in the royal palace of Koryo kingdom. I think the song of the Koryo dynasty was the female shaman's love song which was performed by the Kisaeng.