Myth is that people worship the gods for the tale, is under the religious sentiment of the product of imagination, is the scope of religious literature. Myth of the prowess of a nation that best reflects the level of religious sentiment, which is a significant distinction between the type of civilization sign.
Sumerian Akkadian period and the Qin and Han Shi Qi 分别 China and the ancient civilization in Mesopotamia Leixing formation and foundation period, in many Wenming elements among the religion and mythology has greatly affected the development trend of their Wenmingleixing formation. In comparison, China and the ancient Mesopotamian myth of the development of the case presented significant differences, mainly in the myth of the document carrier, the personification of the gods, gods and myths of the spectrum and other aspects of narrative art.
Literature from the carrier in terms of myth, recorded in ancient Chinese mythology major thinkers in philosophy, as a secondary proof material, rarely separate chapter, it has nothing to do with religious ideas. Such as the famous "Sky Goddess" and "Moon" myth, all from the Han Philosophy of "Huainanzi view training offerings", the two myths are serving the talk, nothing to do with the religious concept of the gods. Early Confucian classics, known as "Six", that "poetry", "book", "li", "easy", "music", "Spring" for China's main legacy of ancient local culture, but the myth can be seen by very few. China's first two official history, "Historical Records" and "Han", which in the "discipline" in the myth of the founding emperor of the induced description, opening later compiled the official history of the traditional myth of the emperor induced strokes. These induced fairy tale plot is simple, is ancestor worship religious sense of the political myth is Shixuan Yang is the king of the phase of the feudal Wang Zhaodi Wenzhiwugong rarely interfere with the myth of divine deeds. Prehistoric archaeological relics from the Shang and Zhou periods are rarely popular mythology that correspond with the later pattern, especially in the Shang Dynasty Oracle, ZHOU Qin bronze inscriptions, etc. on the occasion of the carrier is rarely seen. Overall, the number of rare ancient Chinese mythology, there is no independent works and feature-length films, this fact is also reflected in the literature in the bibliography. Chinese Literature Classification reflects the true pattern of the formation of local culture, the myth of forces during the decline of the facts.
Mesopotamia, Sumerian and Akkadian mythology through the two historical periods, the time span of 2,500 years, the myth of both quantity and content of its forms is called the ancient culture of the national heritage. The world's first directory found in the literature and the southern city of Nippur in ancient Mesopotamian ruins, the compilation time in two thousand BC century. Disk-shaped clay tablets inscribed in two of 21 literary works, there are seven mythological, mythology described as a staple of religious literature in the classification in the literature to occupy independent status. Ancient Mesopotamian myths not only document carrier forms, space and scale are common in feature-length films, the famous mythical epic "Gilles ga even the United States' record on clay tablets in 11," ETA that "myth is more the size of 450 lines of text . These fragmented pieces of ancient Chinese mythology no separate chapter of the situation to form a significant contrast between the vivid myth of national development was reflected in the rise and fall of the other sooner or later.
Personification of the gods of ancient Chinese mythology, the slow progress, the culture of the previous books in the spring is difficult to see the specific sense of the divine image, the image of god has been vague unknown thousands of them, "Poetry Taiga King Wen," said, "God of the set, silent no smell ", others such as day of God, Luna, Aeolus, god of water and other natural personification of God has not been fully developed, the gods and the ambiguous relationship between human beings, nor the know their gender, personality, family genealogy and so on. On the contrary, the ancient Mesopotamian myths the gods with God, most people with the characteristics of anthropomorphism, personification more thorough. Such as the Sumerian cylinder seal depicting a period of five gods of Photos. Mythological gods talking and laughing, like humans need food, clothing, dress, as well as love and marriage and family, the story of the conflict between the gods in the image of the gods is more lifelike.
The gods of ancient Chinese mythology, the lack of strict family pedigree, not to each other system is. On the contrary, according to ancient Mesopotamia theologians for the human family organization arranged a tight lineage gods, each god has a main wife and children their parents, many of the spirits form a family.
Ancient Chinese mythology fragmented rare, the lack of system, let alone what the artistic, the later well-known myth mostly in the Warring States Period and later historical periods, Taoism, Buddhism and other religions of the rise is a myth that the main driving force in the spring before the period of civilization is few myths generated. Back in the ancient myth in Mesopotamia before the advent of the large number of countries have, as a promotion of religious doctrine as an important cultural function, the myth of multi-use repeated, and exaggerated to be so artistic, made narrative art of high achievement. Ancestor worship is the main religion of ancient Chinese form of nature worship is not deeply depressed fully developed, the natural decline of the myth is the fact that fate. On the contrary, nature worship from prehistoric civilizations in Mesopotamia is the main form of religion, which, naturally received the full development of the myth, showing well-developed features.
ZHANG Wen (Author: Shaanxi Normal University, History and Culture)
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
ZHANG Wen: Chinese myth and mythology in Mesopotamia Cultural Comparison
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