• 비교문화연구
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• 제35권
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• pp.123-154
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• 2014

In the 17th and 18th centuries, when the Ryukyu kingdom had been invaded and controlled by Japan, some official texts about 'history' were documented. In that texts, there are some myths about the kings-Syunten(舜天), Eiso(英祖), Satto(察度), Syouhasi(尙巴志), Syouen(尙圓)-who founded dynasties of Ryukyu kingdom. This study attempts to delineate the features and meaning of those founder myths as a polotial discourse for kingship. The results of this study are as follows. 1. The founder myths are discourses to describe the genealogy of the Ryukyu kingdom as the result of Mandate of Heaven(T'ien Ming, 天命). 2. In ancient okinawa, the sun was a symbol of ruler. The king of Ryukyu kingdom was thought as 'son of the sun', 'Tedako(てだこ, 太陽子) in the time of Syou dynasty(尙王朝). But in the founder myths, the only one Tedako is Eiso. 3. In the myths, the 'historical' founders are described as the king for agriculture. They were said to make the farming instruments with iron and rule the spring water for farming. The iron and water for fariming was thought to represent the power of king and the kingship. 4. The writers of myths aimed to be separated from the mythical kingship of past Ryukyu(古琉球). So, they threw the idea of Tedako(=mythical kingship) into the prison of mythical ages by rewriting myth of King Eiso. Instead of it, they built up the new image of agriculture-king who rules and controlls the iron and water for good farming. The meaing of this change, from 'shiny sun' to 'cultural king', is that the abstract and general power of kingship was turned into a concrete and restricted power of kingship. On the bases of it, there was the confucian political ideas from China, T'ien Ming thought(天命論). Under the influence of not only China but also Japan, the writers of myths attempt to find a new way for their kingdom by reconstructing kingship with ruminating over the kingship of past. The myth of founders in the 17th and 18th Centuries shows the aspects of kingship of Ryukyu kingdom and tells us that those myths are the political discourses identifying kingship and Ryukyu kingdom.

• 심성연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.50-87
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• 2013

C. G. Jung은 일찍이 신화(神話)나 민담(民譚, Märchen)에서 인간 무의식의 보편적, 원초적 조건이 발견된다고 하였다. 우리의 일상에서 이러한 인간심성의 보편성을 흔히 체험할 수 있는 것은 꿈이다. 그러므로 꿈에 나오는 인간 심성에 있는 보편적인 원형상들을 이해하기 위해서 신화소(神話素)들이 등장하는 신화나 민담들에 대한 분석심리학적 해석을 시도해 보는 것은 실제 임상에서 마주치게 되는 이런 '큰 꿈'들을 충실히 이해하기 위해 매우 중요한 과정이다. 저자는 신화에 대한 분석심리학적 해석에 관심을 가지면서 그 대상에 대한 탐색을 하면서 신화소에 나타나는 '원형'의 보편성을 우리 민족 전래의 신화 속에서 찾아보기 위해 삼국유사를 살펴보던 중 기이편(紀異篇)에 나오는 신라(新羅)의 건국신화인 혁거세왕(赫居世王) 신화에 주목을 하게 되었다. 신라는 일찍 건국이 되긴 하였지만 한반도 남부 끝자락에 위치한 제일 작은 나라로서 고구려, 백제에 비해 정치, 군사적으로나 문화적으로 가장 늦게 발전한 나라였음에도 결국 삼국을 통일하고 우리나라 역사상 가장 긴 거의 1000년(BC57~AD935)의 역사를 이어온 나라라는 점에서 건국과 관련된 남다른 바탕이 있었는지 그들의 건국신화에 있는 원형상(原型像)들을 살펴보고자 하였다. 한반도의 남쪽 작은 나라였던 신라의 건국시조의 탄생신화가 탄생전의 상태에서부터 탄생, 배필의 탄생, 성장, 결혼, 즉위, 다스림, 죽음, 죽음 이후, 계승까지 거의 완전한 줄거리를 갖고 있다는 것은 매우 주목되는 점이다. 이 신화에 나오는 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13, 61 등 다양한 숫자 상징, 동, 서, 남, 북과 중심을 포함한 모든 방위, 호랑이, 백마, 닭, 용, 봉(鳳) 뱀 등 많은 동물상징, 중심적인 상징인 알을 비롯한 바위, 박(瓢), 전광(電光), 샘물, 내(川), 나무, 숲, 산, 쇠 등 자연의 상징과 선도성모 같은 신상(神像) 등 점차 이야기가 전개되면서 등장하는 온갖 상징들은 이 짧은 신화 속에 온 인류가 경험해온 의식의 탄생, 부성과 모성의 합일을 통한 성장과 발전, 소멸, 재생의 이야기가 펼쳐지고 그런 과정이 다음 세대로 영원히 계승되는 웅대한 이야기가 재현되고 있음을 볼 수 있다. 신화의 한 단어, 한 문장 또는 별로 의미를 찾을 수 없어 보이던 내용들이 점차 그 뜻을 드러내고 있었고, 무의식과 의식의 상호 작용이 그 모습을 달리 하며 계속 반복되며, 중층적으로 표현되고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 인문언어
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• 제6권
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• pp.51-75
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• 2004

Is there a pattern in history? How and why does social change occur? Are we to distinguish between the methods to be employed in the study of man and the study of nature? How does linguistic, or 'philological', knowledge contribute to unearthing historical facts? These are the queries that Vico grappled with throughout his life. Vico, however, was an outsider to the intellectual atmosphere of his own day, dismissed as obscure, speculative, and unsound. Only after his death did he begin to inspire enthusiasm among diverse readers, and as long as we remain concerned with the queries mentioned above, Vico's reflections will come alive with contemporary relevance. Actually he has been regarded as the founder--unrecognized by his contemporaries--of the philosophy of history and as a thinker whose ideas anticipated such later intellectual movements as historicism, pragmatism, existentialism, and structuralism. There are many among modern minds who find Vico fascinating for his view of myth as concrete thought and of an age of myth as a necessary age in the intellectual evolution of the human race. James Joyce, for one, was deeply impressed by Vico's view on myth, on metaphor, on Homer, on language, on psychology, and much else besides. 'My imagination grows when I read Vico,' he once confessed, 'as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung.' Some philosophers, critics, psychologists, social scientists and even geographers would describe themselves as 'Vichians', sharing the view that Vico was a poet and a lawyer, a platonist and a baconian rolled into one. His refusal to be confined within any one discipline, his imaginative effort to understand different cultures, and his insight in dealing with some fundamental problems in the study of humanity all compel admiration and deserve to be emulated in our age--an age when the split between the literary and the scientific approaches to the understanding of society is widening into a chasm. Vico has left some of his most important ideas underdeveloped or even undeveloped, to be excavated and polished by us afier our own fashion. It is surprising that Vico is still a man of obscure name in the academia of our country, Korea.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.178-188
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• 1998

In this paper, I tried to interpretate the matter and form of Chumsungdae, which has been mainly assumed as an facility for astronomical observaton of ancient Shilla dynasty, located on Kyongju, Korea. Basically, I took the thoughts of the place and the theory of cognition on landscape as a research tool, and the research was undertaken through the surveying the physical surroundings of chumsungdae and studying the references related to a myth, thoughts, and a tale of shilla era. This research was anticipated to find out the various symbolic meanings and functions of Chumsungdae and its place, which is somewhat different from the view of scientific uses of it. The matter and form of the Chumsungdae realizes the archetypal form of the well and meanings of petition for agricultural abundance, leading to a wishing for political stability of the nation, especially an authority of a reign of the queen, named Sun-duk who is the first one in Shilla Dynasty. The chumsungdae was located on the very sacred place surrounded by the tumulous and Kyerim forest which was birth and death place of the founder and king of a family of Kim. It does mean that the Chumsungdae was very scared work, and made place with combination of meaning above mentioned and natural environment. Finally, this paper suggested the neighboring area of the Chumsungdae be restored with the forest as an archetypeof old picture and environment of Kyerim.