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The Aspects of Commemorating Ceremonies for Taejo(Goryeo’s first king) and the Cult in the Goryeo Period

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2012, (107), pp.1-44
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Jung-Soo Han 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to arrange the aspects of commemorating ceremonies for Taejo(Goryeo’s first king) in the Goryeo period and search for the features of the management of the Goryeo dynasty by arranging that these ceremonies were transcendentalize to be some kind of cults and beliefs. For this purpose, firstly I examine the consecration of the royal blood and the birth of Taejo. Secondly,I arrange how the commemoration for Taejo reflected in the ancestral rites of national level. Finally, I try to find the commemoration for Taejo relating the belief and religion. By this process, I have come to some conclusion. The blood and birth of Taejo was consecrated by the records of that time and the emblazonment of late time. Taejo, who left Hunyo 10cho(10injunctions for his successor to observe) and accomplished the unification of three Han, was reproduced periodically in the ancestral rites of national level and the activity for religion and belief as the divine progenitor. He was also the object of wish for national safety. From these phenomena, we can understand the meaning of the cult and religion for Taejo. Eventually Goryeo was able to establish the appropriateness of rule by the establishment of royal identity and authority from the fact that Taejo was the divine progenitor relating the dragon. As we can see in Yeondeunghoe(Lotus lamp ceremony) and Palgwanhoe(Assembly of Eight Prohibitions), it became one of the principle for the integration of society.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.