A Study on the Mysticalness of Korean Ancient Founder’s Mythology in the 「Samkukyusa」

• Main Authors: Lee li-Meen, 李麗敏
• Other Authors: Lin ming-teh
• Format: Others
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14246131347011773375

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 韓國語文研究所 === 95 === ABSTRACT A Study on the Mysticalness of Korean Ancient Founder’s Mythology in the 「Samkukyusa」 Lee li-Meen Department of Korean Language and Literature Graduate School of Chinese Culture University The aim of this thesis is to discuss the sanctity of the mysticalness of Korean ancient founder’s birth and the character, which includes explanations of the mysticalness of founder’s extraction(sacred decent, mostly descending from heaven), ability and appearance, as depicted in the「Samkukyusa」. Whatever processes of civilization country may have, nearly all countries have their own founder’s mythology. The founder’s mythology has one object, mainly found by depiction of the place of birth and the establishment of the dynasty: that is, strengthening the sanctity of foundation of a country. This thesis attempts to analyze the specific meanings of the mysticalness of the birth of the Korean Ancient founder and the process of the establishment of the dynasty written in ‘Samkukyusa’. The Korean Ancient founder’s mythology includes ‘Ancient Joseon’ founder’s mythology, ‘North Buyeo’ founder’s mythology, ‘East Buyeo’ founder’s mythology, ‘Goguryeo’ founder’s mythology, ‘Silla’ founder’s mythology and ‘Garakkuk’ founder’s mythology, etc. All of these mythologies have one common, that is, the birth of the founder’s been interfered by the god of heaven and by the god of earth, which was suggested by previous studies, in order to emphasize the sanctity and orthodox of the extraction. First of all this thesis attempts to describe the contents of each founder’s mythology individually, and then it attempts to make an analysis on the mysticalness of each founder’s mythology. Besides, it tries to explain the characters of each founder’s extraction, birth, ability and appearance. This thesis tries to go deep into elaborately combining all the past study results and finding the new aspects of the mysticalness of the founder’s mythology, and eventually proves how these findings of mysticalness regarding the founder’s mythology make contributions to strengthen the theoretical approach of the sanctity. That is, the birth process of the founder holds the key to claiming the sanctity and the sacred decent regarding the Korean founder’s mythology.