호남지역 삼국시대의 고고학 자료를 통해 본 부뚜막신앙

Abstract

This paper seeks to identify the realities of kitchen range religion that would have been relfected onto the kitchen range during the period of the Three States discovered in the Honam region. The kitchen range played an important role in indoor living as it provided heating, stored a source of fire and made cooking or lighting possible. The holy meaning attached to the kitchen range is verified through the contributions of purified water, burying of steel devices, the tunnel shaped hang-over structure and the form of portable kitchen ranges. It has also been verified that the rituals of the kitchen range were included in the rituals for burials that were seen as a rite of passage. By reviewing the archeological materials related to the kitchen range from the period of the Three States in the Honam region, the kitchen range religion was found to have been born through the related rituals associated in all stages of constructing, using and disposing of the kitchen range. During the construction stage, the Haenam Shinguem historic site shows that steel devices were buried, while for the usage stage, the kitchen range in the Gokseong Ojiri historic site shows a round clay pot estimated to be jowangjungbal. In the disposal stage, round clay pots and intentional damaging to the tunnel shaped hang-over structure within the reisdential areas were found to be proof of such rituals. Moreover, it can be estimated that kitchen range rituals have carried onto be reflected onto burial rituals through the tunnel shaped hang-over structure and portable kitchen range. However, estimating rituals that are not tangible based on archeological documents can only be vague. But since there would be resulting items of such activities, more studies will be carried out to interpret ritual activities of ancient times.