檀君神話 硏究(Ⅱ) : 聖顯을 中心으로 Focused on Hierophany = Study on Dangun Mythology(Ⅱ)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

According to Eliade, existence can be interprete as the sacred and the profane. The ordinary is referred to as the profane while the inordinary is the sacred. Mythology is the heirophany and symbol of the sacred world.
Dangun mythology is the record of hierophany related to the time and space of cosmogony. The sacred tree at the summit of Mt. Taebaek where the son of Hwan-in, (Sky-God), Hwan-ung descended at the beginning of the world is the consecrated zone. The sacred city was established here. This zone of the sacred is the center of the world, axis mundi and naval of cosmos, where the creation of everything was effected. Here cosmogony was completed, the transformation of Ung-nyeo took place and Dangun was born. Time is irreversible.
Time in mythology and ritual, however, is experienced as reversibility. The time when hierophany is realized is the time of the sacred. Thus the sacred time is reversible as it can be repeated. The sacred time which has the symbol of the ritual time in Dangun mythology means the process of the Ung-nyeo's transformation. The transformation through the lapse of time and certain taboos before the ritual is the initiation of death and rebirth and the road leading to the center.
Dangun mythology overcame the lapse of time by the recreation and birth. Consequently, Dangun mythology is a mythology expressing soteriological transformation, which recorded the endless pursuit from the profane to the sacred. Dangun mythology is not a simple mythology concerning the foundation of a country but a revelation of man's common desire and wille to be liberated from the fear of time.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 聖과 俗
• 1. 象徵
• 2. 檀君神話의 聖顯
• Ⅱ. 聖스러운 空間
• 1. 天神의 下陸
• 2. 神市
• 3. 神檀樹
• Ⅲ. 聖스러운 時間
• 1. 創世의 反復
• 2. 中心에 이르는 길
• Ⅳ. 永遠回歸의 神話
• 참고문헌
• ABSTRACT