[삼국유사] 소재설화에 나타난 천신의 인격화 양상과 의미-7-9세기 배경설화를 대상으로

Abstract

The Humanization of the Sky-god and Meaning in the Narratives ofSam-guk-yu-sa (三國遺事) ; Yun, He-Shin Humanized sky-god is found in the naratives of Sam-guk-yu-sa especialy during A.D. 7~9centuries. The features of sky-god were formed under the idea of human character. C o m p a r e d w i t h t h e s k y - g o d o f m y t h i c e r a , t h e f e a t u r e s b e c a m e m or e v i v i d a s l i k e a mankind’s. The main changes could be arranged as folows. 1. The celestial voice came down into the reality. 2. Rewards and punishments were sentenced as ethic judge. 3. The sky-god descended from the sky and interacted with mankind. 4. Sky-god varied into several sky-gods. 5. The status was sometimes lowered at the level of human. When we examine why and what for the sky-god behaves in the narratives, it is found that the sky-god acted not just for the people related kingship but for the purpose of Buddhism’s propagation and legal position. With this purpose, assuming the form of mankind, the sky-god descended himself and stimulated various buddhistic misionary works. And the result is devoted to the reinforcement of kingship. This Humanization of sky-god was acompanied with the change of ruling ideology from shamanism to Buddhism. Whoever pursued the buddhistic work or mental training, the sky-god became a patron of the man, so the por and lowly people also were cared of. From this sky-god’s behavior, the moved view point on human is found:The meaning of private individual―not only for kingship related people―was valued and depened compared with mythic era. In adition, the sky-god’s characteristic was changed from the sun god, the supreme being and paternal god to buddhistic god which interacts with individuals, and it shows a shift from mythic era to buddhism oriented society.