동해안 오구굿의 축제적 성격

Abstract

Death lies at the end of life for all living things. Many people fear death and wish to overcome this fate but it is unvoidable according to the law of nature. However, although life and death follow nature's law, they can be transformed into social life through rites. In addition, death rituals can be necessary in order to help people accept death more quickly. In death rituals, the life and death are contrastive. They coexist. The dead has to order life in this world, and the family of the deceased has to return to their daily routine through reconciliation with the dead. Oguguk first differentiates the world of life and death and then reconciles the living and the dead. The life of the dead is completed through the recognition of death. In Oguguk, the dead is guided into the otherworld by contacting with life. The dead in this world is connected with a new life from the otherworld, and death rituals make the dead accept death and the living affirm life. Death is not a problem for the dead, but for the living. Death shows that its process is connected with the life of this world. Oguguk unites the community of the livings and releases outwards awareness of the internalized death. Oguguk is a death ritual but not a sad one. Laughter from death rituals is not a light laughter, but an emotional empathy that touches one's heart. Through Oguguk, the lived ones sublimate their emotion of sorrow and resentment and later transcend the sorrow into laughter. Thusm Oguguk is not only a ritual that sends the dead in heaven but a festival as well.send the dead in the heaven but also the model of festivalized ritual.