한국 창세신화(創世神話)의 특징에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Characteristics of Korean Creation Myth

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

“Chogamje” and “Changsega” which belong to orally transmitted creation myth, are all examples of shaman songs, which suggest similarities between Chinese mythology and Taoism. This is because Korean shamanistic beliefs, having descended for ages, had been influenced by the Chinese culture. Nevertheless, both “Chogamje” and “Changsega” are all based on Korean indigenous traditional mythical context in terms of basic framework of shaman songs. Furthermore, it can be said that the myth of “Mago-halmi” represents Korea`s creation myth which has been passed down in various parts of Korea. Though the myth, “Mago-halmi” suggests that it was influenced by China, values which were handed down by private persons, according to the change of the times, are also reflected. By comparison with “Chogamje” and “Changsega” which were somewhat refined, “Mago-halmi” may be a more genuine oral folk tale as well as Korean characteristic creation myth including the folks` simple world view and value. Though creation myth including “Kyuwon-Sahwa”, “Hwandan-Gogi” and “Budoji” have been passed down in the form of manuscript, with their original copies having lost, they initially were in accordance with literature style. And most of these literatures show a lot of confidence of indigenous thought and culture, with criticizing toadyism to China. This is because most descendents who transmitted the myth of literature were intellectual and knowledgeable with rather strong national identity and self-esteem. In that sense, the creation myths in the literature have creative contents that was not affected by China in comparison with orally transmitted creation myth. Even the creation myths in literatures were based on different historical records in describing on the beginnings of the world, the question to the world for mythical imagination was reconstituted, philosophically by authors with a view of history.