Study On Bird Worship In Myth Of Korean Nationality

The bird worship is the outcome of the primitive society. As the ancient cultural phenomenon of the Korean nationality, it takes an important position and plays a bit role in the myth of Koreans.The birds, which are important in the Korean myth are swan, pigeon, chicken, crane, magpie, crow, sparrow and Big Bird in all 8. They can be summarized as creator, prophet, messenger, protector and guide.The bird worship in the Korean nationality worship contains the basic concept of bird worship and ovum worship, which belief concept etc. In the myth birds are often deified and respected highly, which shows pan-bird worship and witch belief concept of ancients of Koreans. And some oviparous myth is the outcome of combination of the ancient bird worship and sun worship of Koreans.The deep cultural implication shown by the bird worship in the Korean myth contains god worship, sun worship, intelligent bird worship and folk custom psychology of god bird's favor for the world. The bird was regarded by ancients of Koreans as "the heavenly messenger", and symbol of god, which shows that the bottom of the bird worship belief contains ancient god worship. The sun worship is a universal primitive belief and through the oviparous myth the sun worship of the ancient Koreans can be seen. The ancient Koreans thought the bird had deity and it favors the man, which led to folk custom psychology of the bird favor for the world and the love and respect of the intelligent bird.The Korean bird worship has commonness of pan-bird worship as well as differences with that of the nationalities of Northeast Asia, especially with the Manchu nationality. The bird in the Korean myth has not become the bird god and totem, as is the case of Manchus. However, Korean bird worship has oviparous worship, the feature, which is not found in the Manchu bird worship.As the special primitive belief of Korean nationality, the bird worship is stored the bottom of mind of Koreans, which has formed a collective unconsciousness of strict self-discipline and deeply influences the myth and its development route of Korean nationality.