성씨시조담의 전승과 이해 지평

Abstract

This study examines a manifold of the tales of the progenitor of family name which is transmuted into the tale of mythical significance, legend and folktale, and the horizon of understanding them through the salient ancestor of family name. The tale of the progenitor of family name is related to the birth and acquirement of its progenitor, a tale that is, for the extended mythical ideas, full of the quality of the divinity of ancestry, the validity of the family name and a blood relation for durability. It is to be construed as its mythical function for the special phratries that some respect or other may be specified in which the tale is a reflection of the collective’s Weltanschauung and values, and takes a minimum of a mythical order relevant to recorded history. However, the sacred idea, which gets out of the phratries, becomes so weak that it turns out to be a variant of a legend or tale rather than a myth. This represents a sound myth of a group and various legends or tales of other group derived from it. The tale thus identified leads to a various transition the tale of which is brought out by the rationalization of human beings and their ordinary knowledge, and makes an arrangement of the proper function in oral tradition. Moreover, with an extension of the subject handing down its tale, various ways toward the tale get arranged, indicating that they leaves open the possibility of a constant recreation. This will, therefore, leads to the world of general consciousness to which a social common notion is added. Meantime, the tale of the progenitor of family name is that when pursuing the true restoration of the clan through the advent of a great figure, it is identified with an extension of it. Whereas the tale of the progenitor of family name begins with a new family name ascribed to a figure as progenitor, the salient ancestor of family name functions as an on-going mythology which draw on the restoration and prosperity of the clan from a new angle.