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This article has the aim to see PrkSangRyung’s novel <Yirijang> as inter-textual structure and mythical semiosis. Particurely, this article focuses on the relationship between Buddism Sipudo(Ten-cow picture) and Sabokbulyun of Samgukyusa. The Novel <Yirijang> has a mythical course of seeking the truth. There are three points to research the relationships between Buddism Sipudo and Sabokbulyun of Samgukyusa. The first, this article finds the common steps between the course of seeking the truth of PrkSangRyung’s novel <Yirijang> and the Buddism Sipudo to seek for the cow. The five-faced times of the novel <Yirijang> are matched with the symbols of Sipudo seeking for the cow. The second, this article compares the cosmetic universal order with Sabokbulyun story of Samgukyusa. The story of Samgukyusa is used as the motif, the name, the symbol, and the theme in PrkSangRyung’s novel <Yirijang>. The third, this article reveals the binary oppositions with the sun and the moon, the life and the death, man and woman, and the sacred and the profane. These binary oppositions come to be a androgyne, which represents the integral and complex human being. Namely, a androgyne means not only man but also woman. The world has a cyclical order. The understanding of PrkSangRyung’s novel <Yirijang> needs to grasp the social and mythical desires.

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