Abstract
ImJinkook and Jujub Sunsung had a brief trip to Hwanggeumsna Mountain, on the contrary Nogadanpoong Agissi had to take a very long and hard walk to the Mountain. Having been pregnant, she went a long way round, and gave birth to three sons.
The itinerary of <Chogong Bonpuri>, a main repertoire of Jeju Shaman Epic, is as follows;
pregnancy - journeys of full of hardships - delivery and nurture - being killed - resurrection
It alludes to a growth and development, harvest and regeneration of grains. When we count her a goddess of cereals, we understand that the pregnancy implies the Spring season, making a long journey a long time of growing in the Summer and delivering three sons means the harvest of the Autumn.
In the land of delivery, Seogangbepo Tang, she was killed and buried in the field. As the harvest of the year was completed, the task of the Cereal Goddess was through. She ought to be sent where she has come, so people might welcome her the next year.
The death is not always a complete severance in the Mythic view. Death can bring new life. Samchon Sunbi are the ones who cause the death. Agissi, three sons and Samchon Sunbi make circular confrontations, a mock ones. It is a disguising conflict which people have to carry in order to recover the full vitality of the Spring. Had it not been Samchon Sunbi, there would not be the death of Agissi, and neither the resurrection of the next year. Whrer there is not resurrection there is no growth of the grains.
<Chogong Bonpuri>, <Hainuwelle> and <Persephone> are all related with 'woman and killing', death and foodstuffs. Hainuwelle emphasizes the phenomenal aspect of the festival, Persephone gives concrete form of the cosmic order to the circulation of the four seasons, and in <Chogong Bonpuri> people accept the cosmic order as the idea of a god.
The itinerary of <Chogong Bonpuri>, a main repertoire of Jeju Shaman Epic, is as follows;
pregnancy - journeys of full of hardships - delivery and nurture - being killed - resurrection
It alludes to a growth and development, harvest and regeneration of grains. When we count her a goddess of cereals, we understand that the pregnancy implies the Spring season, making a long journey a long time of growing in the Summer and delivering three sons means the harvest of the Autumn.
In the land of delivery, Seogangbepo Tang, she was killed and buried in the field. As the harvest of the year was completed, the task of the Cereal Goddess was through. She ought to be sent where she has come, so people might welcome her the next year.
The death is not always a complete severance in the Mythic view. Death can bring new life. Samchon Sunbi are the ones who cause the death. Agissi, three sons and Samchon Sunbi make circular confrontations, a mock ones. It is a disguising conflict which people have to carry in order to recover the full vitality of the Spring. Had it not been Samchon Sunbi, there would not be the death of Agissi, and neither the resurrection of the next year. Whrer there is not resurrection there is no growth of the grains.
<Chogong Bonpuri>, <Hainuwelle> and <Persephone> are all related with 'woman and killing', death and foodstuffs. Hainuwelle emphasizes the phenomenal aspect of the festival, Persephone gives concrete form of the cosmic order to the circulation of the four seasons, and in <Chogong Bonpuri> people accept the cosmic order as the idea of a god.
| Translated title of the contribution | <Chogong Bonpuri>, A Myth of the Goddess of Cereals |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 255-283 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | 한국고전여성문학연구 |
| Issue number | 23 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2011 |