서귀본향당본풀이의 특징과 의의

Abstract

There is beautiful scenery and a beautiful myth in Jeju. Myth was made very before, but was handed down continuously without disappearing in Jeju. It is a story for the life of hunting and the collection to be old than farming. Such a story tells with a song(Oral Epic). It is something like miracle that Oral Epic associating with God of the hunting is left. <Myth of Seogyi Shrine> is Oral Epic of the faith. There is the story about God of wind and God of hunting and the hunter. Human wish about hunting in this myth is accepted like Altamira cave wall Picture. So it is the figure of myth that the first human beginning was born. I see a motif of ‘beginning of the world’ in <Myth of Seogyi Shrine>. There is the story that it was darkness, and the world became slightly bright in a beginning of the world. It is thought with a genesis-like figure more than <Cheonjiwang Myth(천지왕본풀이)>. There is a personified god clarified darkness. Therefore it seems to be the form that advanced earlier than non-personified god. The Motifs of Sling and archery are like the founding of Tamla(耽羅) country myth. The main characters(3God in Tamla Myth) decided the place after hitting the bow, and they settled down. The three hunting Gods came to settle down after having met 3 goddesses. Also this main characters in Myth of Seogyi Shrine turned into settling down their life. The shape of God in this myth is very precise and detailed and elegant and splendid. I understand a heart to admire that a citizen of faith wears. In a figure of beautiful and noble God, I come to realize reciprocality of religion and literature again.