김열규 Yol Kyu Kim

DOI: Vol.23(No.1) 1-19, 2008

There are two monumental, primitive art works at Ulju province in the south-eastern end of Korean peninsula. Both of them are rock paintings on the rocky cliff by the river, running in the deep, steep and narrow valley surrounded by green mountains. They are primordial gallery of Korea located in the nature. Among them, the one is known as the Bangudae rock painting and the other, as Chonjenri rock painting. They are supposed to be formed in the era, between new stone age and bronze age. Former is covered not only with such mountain wild animals as tigers, wolves, pigs and deers, but also with such ocean animals as several kinds of whales and sharks and turtles. But latter is quite different. It is full of various kinds of geometrical figures and numerous lines. The one is concrete, other abstract. In spite of this greater oppositional difference, the observer may point out that they share common feature as the sacred alter. They are supposed to be holy place, where ritual performance took place in the remote era. There, at the food of the steepy cliff, we can witness wide and long rock floor on which some kind of ritual ceremony could have been performed in ancient age. Just in the front of numerous animal figures, the primitive Koreans may have prayed for the help of there guardian holy spirit; `Let us hunt many big games as much as we need!` However in the front of abstract figures, supposedly, something quite different could may been took place. Among the Chonjenri`s paintings, the oval figures in which the vertical line is engraved not only attracts the observer`s attention but also suggests that the figures themselves are the female fertility symbol. In the result, we can conclude that Chonjenri`s rock painting contains Great Earth Mother`s maternity itself.

원시적 제단, 포획과 번식, 기하학적 도형, 모성의 생명력, 상징, Sacred alter, Capture, Propagation, Geometrical figures, Maternal fertility, Symbol

강철중 Cheol Joong Kang

DOI: Vol.23(No.1) 20-49, 2008

The Korean fairytale `Eyes in the Sewing Box` is a story about a boy who was abandoned by his mother and searches to find own father. The father was exiled to a distant place and the boy lived with his stepmother. One day, his stepmother told him that his father got a serious disease and he needed fresh human eyes for a cure. The boy took out his eyes and gave them to his mother. But the story was a lie and it was her plan to abandon her son. She put her son`s eyes into her silk pouch and kept them in her sewing box. The boy`s stepmother abandoned the boy and brought him to a riverside very far from their home. Because of his blindness, he could not find where to go. He was completely lost and finally he fell into a river. But fortunately he landed on an island. He found a bamboo grove and heard some beautiful sounds which came from the bamboo. He wanted to find where the sound came from. He grabbed the bamboo one by one, finally he found it. Then he cut the bamboo and made a flute. He sat there and played the bamboo flute every day, all day long. The sound was extremely beautiful and emotional. Everybody who heard the sound was touched by it. One day, a local judge heard the sound and ordered his servant to find the person who played the flute. The servant brought the boy in front of the judge. The judge asked him about his story, how he became blind, and why he played the bamboo flute. The boy told him his entire story. Just then, his father heard the story of the boy in the crowd. Finally the boy and his father met again. They went back to their home and found his eyes. The boy`s vision was restored and he forgave his mother. They lived together happily ever after. This story is about a boy who loses his father and who is reunited with his father again. Immature consciousness cannot stand individually, so it is helpless under the influence of negative mother archetype. Additionally, it takes out the vision of consciousness. The consciousness isolated in the lonely island, and surrounded by unconsciousness. But the island is individual space, though it is very small and lonely. From there, the sound is produced spontaneously. That is the sound of the Self. The consciousness does not ignore the sound from the Self, finally it gets back its` paternity and achieves higher consciousness.

눈알, 쫓겨남, 의식, 부성, 모성 원형, Eyes, Abandonment, Consciousness, Paternity, Mother archetype