문화 축제로서의 동계올림픽의 신화적 상징과 위상
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Mythical Symbol and Status of Winter Olympics as Cultural Festival
Chang, Young-ran
Winter Olympics has a sub-image as compared to the Summer Olympics. It inherits the tradition of the Modern Olympic Games that has been revived from the Ancient Olympic Games. In this paper, I try to present the theoretical foundation to improve the status of the Winter Olympics for analyzing the symbol of fire and water, which is a main principle and symbol of the space and time presented in the Winter Olympics. First, the Winter Olympics is held in the winter, when human activity is reduced. I think that Winter Olympics is necessity for complementing the main features of ancient rituals ‘New Year.’It can be strengthen the dynamic aspects of winter season more actively, and will be restore the primitive vitality to be open a new era. Then it is possible to share the essential aspects of the festival. Secondly, the typical space of the Winter Olympics is a mountain. It is a sacred space where heaven and earth meet, and is a center of the universe. The site of the Winter Olympics is shared a symbolic aspects as a navel(omphaols) of the all world, and as a unified principle of everything. Lastly, It is a "water" as well as “fire”if we would represented the symbol principle of the Winter Olympics by the material image. There are ‘snow’ and ‘ice’as symbol elements of the Winter Olympics." The principle of "fire" has the power that can make water to live at winter. The principle of water has the function of fertility and has eternal power as source of life. However, snow and ice has potentially life-force in nature. It is the principle of "fire" that can make a source of vitality again. The ancient ritual ‘New Year’ played an important role in recovering the primordial life-force of the universe, and establishing a new order of life. It is expected that Winter Olympics may be made to stimulate the disabled season of winter, and to promote its regenerative power, and to live a life dynamically.
