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Cultural Analysis To The Deterioration Of Babylonia Myth

Posted on:2007-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H W MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360182497701Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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"The humanity has one kind of instinct;this is the desire to inquire into its roots." Butwhen we want to track down a national root of the culture, you must understand its myth.Anthropologist Andrew pointed out that, the initial science should be a mythology;it iseach national initial history. In the human primitive culture, the myth resides a special status,myth itself constitutes a independent entity culture, usually is manifesting one kind ofnational culture primitive image, but its in-depth structure transforms for a series of motives,is maintaining profound and lasting influence for a long time to this kind of culture. Themyth is the door to the wisdom of the humanity ancient times, the myth is the sacredknowledge crystallization. In the mythology research goddess myth research is together theunique scenery line. It takes the myth as historical data, corresponding to the finding rootmovement in past-modern culture ideological trend, and pays attention to the prehistoriccivilization, the feminine destiny and the human survival way. The myth reflects inparticular the change of both sexes' relations.Chapter one: The Babylonia myth has reappeared goddess losing typically. It preservesthe Sumerian world create myth, by carrying on "the denaturation" to it, namely completingthe change from original goddess myth reorganization to male god myth.Chapter two: The matriarchal society was humanity's "paradise", when the femalereceives the worship and has many goddess myths, as well as goddess philosophy, thedazzling goddess and their fables are precise reflection and memory of that matriarchalsociety in the ideology. This Chapter reduces its original appearance before deterioration, narrates thelife foundation of goddess myth and woman worship phenomenon.Chapter three: As the society develop, history enters the paternal line society, thus a lot ofmythologies of men have been produced correspondingly. The change of myth testifies thebreaking of chalice and the raising of golden sword. From this time on the human societyhad taken the sword as totem. As the special historical data, the myth had reflected thisprocess, displayed the deterioration phenomenon. The goddess is smeared or killed, themale god becomes the main God. The myth deterioration reflects the transformations ofnarrate, the use to the two-qualities of goddess, and is the origin of female being connectedto the evil closely. From then on the masculine use the changed male god myth to deformfemale, cause the female to degenerate into the masculine slave, losing their independentconsciousness;dominant relations pattern taking the violence as the foundation hassubstituted for the cooperative relations pattern, when both sexes relations and the humansociety has lost the harmony.Chapter four: In the long historical development process, male standard culture has alreadydeveloped into a kind of social cultural strength, has permeated through the deepest place of people'sconsciousness. Such social cultural idea is playing an important role from generation to generation in ahereditary way, and exerting an enormous influence to people, about thought and behavior of people.Women are influenced by these ideas and lose ego consciousness. But recently, awakening femalestrives for the freedom, feminism movement spread widely to the whole world. From thetheory to the practice as well as the literature creation, the criticism, the people that realizesboth sexes have no equality request to return to original state of the goddess, greet itsregression.Chapter five: The regression of goddess today has vital significance to social culturedevelopment. The tool rationality, the pursue of benefit and the scientific principle become"the rational crisis", the root of incredible, the nihility and so on a series of social questionin past-modern age. As modern people involved in the unprecedented difficult position, onekind of feeling which wants to find our culture root flows in our heart. This feeling causesthem to request the regression in the tradition, to seek and to confirm them through thecultural approval. Specially under the past-modern context, the primitive thought shape ofthe myth, which contains and symbolizes the culture, provides the possibility to findingtheir culture root for those people who fall into "the rational crisis" and "the civilized crisis",provides effective prescription to solving "the rational limitation" for the humanity in thecultural reforming intersection. This article is the analysis to Babylon myth deterioration,the goal lies in the return to original history state, participation in the ideological trend thatintend to find culture root.
Keywords/Search Tags:Creation myth, myth deterioration, goddess worship, negative philosophy
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