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초록

This paper reconsiders of the characteristics of Gujiga , a well known ancient song. Gujiga has been regarded as a spell or a labor song. It contains wishes and resulted in a magical phenomenon in fact, so it was considered as a spell. On the other hand, it was associated with labor songs because of the phrase, gulbongjeongchwalto in it. Based on the existing interpretations, scholars interpreted the phrase as to dig in the ground on the top of the mountain or to dig in the top of the mountain and to pile the soil . The act of digging in the ground or piling the soil got associated with work fields, so Gujiga could be regarded as a labor song. However, This paper made clear that chwalto is not to heap the earth in a big scale but to pile a handful of soil as a substitution of an incense burner, having no relationship with something to be called a labor. To prove this, I consulted various Chinese literature and investigated the idiomatic usage of chwalto (to pile a handful of soil), which was associated with bunhyang (to burn incense) and giwon (to pray), which exactly corresponds with the context of Gujiga . Thus I conclude that gulbongjeongchwalto is not an evidence that proves Gujiga is a labor song but a motif associated with a spell.

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