사체화생형 곡물 기원 설화의 전승과 변이의 연구

Abstract

Humans discovered the ability to make analogies through farming. The germination and growth of crops in the ground, their harvest, and the ability to plan the following year’s sowing allowed humankind to liken the earth to life and reveal the forces of nature that bring seeds to maturity through concrete analogies. In the “Hainuwele” myth, where the trope of agriculture is well-represented, we identified the main modes of the trope: personification of the earth, representation of sowing as the killing and mutilation of corpses, and the origin of grain in the transition to civilization. Based on this, we looked at the Korean narrative type of “the second appearance from deceased bodies”and found that the personification of the earth is an active form. The representation of sowing and harvesting as the murder and mutilation of corpses varies, with a detailed representation of the scene being undermined by the brutality of the act and the need to provide a compelling reason for the killing to occur. Analogies of civilizational transitions to uncover the origins of grains tend to be weak or missing, and even if they exist, they merely confirm an already robust worldview. Through this review, we found that the Korean “second appearance from deceased bodies”type of grain origin story is divided into two categories: variation in the metonymies and paradigmatic set, having a semantic similarity to the main components of the story, and variation in the paradigmatic set, which has a semantic contrast. Examining the variation revealed in the syntagmatic chains, we found that it was driven by the expansion and deletion of key components of the narrative. If we can group these into variations that replaced , we can also see that variation involves the expansion and deletion of key components of the cadaverized cereal origin story. Overall, it can be said that “second appearance from deceased bodies”story in Korea tends to be largely folklore. This could be considered a weakening or reduction of the archetypal story, but it also marks a shift in humanity’s attention from the cosmic to the concrete, and hence, a metastasization of the problem.