The Continuity of Go-josean Culture and Symbiotic Multi-culturalism in its Development Process

Abstract

The founders of all the ancient countries symbolize the sun from Shinsi Gogook to Go-josean, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Silla, and Gaya. The sun is the Embodied object of the belief based on the gods of heaven as God. The humanitarian ideal of Hwanwoong and Bulgnae ideal of Park Hyekgesea are not only the two but also the one. What was appeared after the humanitarian ideal had lasted up to the Silla Dynasty is the Hyekgesea ideal. Two ideals have the historical continuity as the political ideal shared by ethnic group who makes what widely advantages or largely lighten the human world as an ideal. The humanitarian ideal Hyekgesea ideal originated form the sacred function of the sun which shines the whole world brightly and saves all lives.<BR> The belief base on the gods of heaven deeply rooted since the ancient heavenly event has lasted up to the present. It is because the culture of the Hwanwoong tribe who had established Shinsi Gogook has been the mainstream of the national culture. However, the culture of the Bear tribe who had established Go-joseon by making an alliance with the Hanwoong tribe with a marriage had disappeared in the history and it is now hard to find it's traces behind. On the other hand, the Tiger tribe who had walked its own way after straying away from the culture of the Hwanwoong tribe has played a role of handing down the Tiger god worship and folk tales about the tiger plentifully from ancient to modern times. The Tiger culture has become powerful and prosperous, while the Bear culture, the leading character of establishing a nation-state, has comparatively died out. How can this happen? No one has ever brought up this question yet, even if it is a really important matter.<BR> The Bear and tiger tribe took different stance in accepting the culture of the Hwanwoong tribe even if they longed for the advanced culture of the Hwanwoong tribe. The Tiger tribe kept its own identity without assimilating, while the Bear tribe assimilated into the culture of the Hwanwoong tribe. The Bear tribe's own culture has no choice but to become automatically extinct because it gave up its own culture and assimilated into the Hwanwoong tribe. However, the Tiger tribe can maintain its own cultural identity because it kept its own culture firmly instead of throwing away even if it longed for the culture of the Hwanwoong tribe. Therefore, the Tiger god worship has formed the main stream of the national culture along with the mountain spirit worship<BR> If it can be said that the Bear tribe established Go-joseon by seeking the assimilation, it appears that the Tiger tribe created the national culture by pursuing the multi-culturalism. The Bear tribe looks to succeed from the political view, but the Tiger tribe achieved more success from the cultural perspective. The Hwanwoong and Bear tribe ended up becoming one from the two, but The Hwanwoong the Tiger tribe advanced to make the three from the two. In other words, the belief on the gods of heaven of the Hwanwoong tribe, the Tiger god worship of the tiger tribe, and the third mountain spirit worship were created. the new mountain spirit worship was developmentally created because the belief on the gods of heaven and tiger god worship were linked together by the symbiosis.<BR> If the assimilationism led to the culture of the extinction, the multi-culturalism led to the culture of the production. It is a important problem how to accept the foreign advanced culture in an age of the culture. If the globalism which guides people into the assimilation into the advanced culture along with the abandonment of its own culture it the way of the self-destruction, the globalism which forms the cultural diversity by making cultural exchanges equally with other cultures while keeping its own cultural identity is the productive and creative way. It is the symbiotic multi-culturalism to enjoy a wave of prosperity without losing either of the two like the Hwanwoong and Tiger tribe. the