Abstract

This paper is the study on the narrative characteristics of the Seolingui religious legend and the dimension changing historically of the transmission. The Seolingui religious legend is being as the region legend in the Paju. The first, the narrative characteristics of the Seolingui religious legend appears as the taboo-construction of religious customs. Seolingui legend about religious customs exsists as what explains the origin of the Seolingui's monument in Gamac-mountain and that narrative structure appears as two patterns. The one is pattern demandind a sacrificial rite, the other is pattern of correction. The dimension of historical change that the Seolingui religious legend has been transmitted from generation to generation can explain as three stages. In the interior of a country, it is connected with the fluctuation of political·administrational·religious hegemony followed by that the dynasty is alternated. On the other hand, in the outerior of a country, it is associated with the dynamic relationships among Koguryo, Dang and Shilla in the focus of the Koguryo and Dang war.