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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2014.12.3.399

Princess Bari, Mother Goddess  

Yoon, In-Sun (Dept. of Liberal Arts, Jeonju University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.12, no.3, 2014 , pp. 399-414 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Princess Bari, an epic song passed down orally among the korean shamans, describes the process of its heroine's becoming a shaman. The life of a shaman coincides with the image of Mother Goddess that created human beings in that her role was to connect the life here and hereafter in Korea. Princess Bari, an abandoned daughter, experiences the world of death, sacrifices herself completely for her parents, devotes to her husband and gives birth to seven sons. She is a Mother Goddess who embraces fecundity and fertility, creation and destruction, and life and death. Furthermore, she is a "warm-hearted Mother Goddess" who takes the deceased to their last journey with maternal care. The number "seven", known to be a very significant number in human lives and the world after death, symbolizes how princess Bari had to be born as the seventh girl of her parents, not as the fifth or the sixth.
Keywords
Mudang; Mother Goddess; seven; patriarchy; sadism; masochism;
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