A Comparative Study On Nǚ Wa Myth And Southern Minority Goddess Myths

As the longest social ideology until now, primary Goddess worship has deeply rooted in human species memory-----the collective unconsiciousness,flashing original human nature brilliance. Procreative worship is a kind of culture phenomenon in early human society, which formed to Goddess culture is a important content of ancient culture. Associated with the historical evolvement, NÇšWa and Goddess absorpt Chinese nation specific culture factors, developt in the inheritance and became the important part of Chinese culture during the fomation of Chinese cultural Pluralistic Integration. At last, carring on dependent thinkingThis paper firstly introduced the exsiting achievement of subject"Han nationality myth of NÇšWa and myth of Goddess",then combined with the record about classical books of myth of NÇšWa and investigation, revealed the meaning, property, characteristics, historical evolvement of myth of NÇšWa. It lets Primary Goddess Procreative Worship stripped from the inordinate folk Goddess worship. This paper holds that NÇšWa is the first ancestor of human, which possesses distinct godship of great mother. During the development of myth, she bonds other kamiomis and becomes a myth figure who has cultural hero godship, and combined with Fuxi,bearing the duty of reproduction and creation of man.In Chapter 3, the paper cards many Goddess image that preservated in the south nationalities creation myth. Through comparative study, we can discove the relationship of the distinct blot of female reproduction worship and myth of NÇšWa, it provides a lot precious materials for studying myth of Goddess. Based on this, investigate them in the pluralistic and organic-whole pattern of Chinese nation. It can not only understand the basic content of myth of Goddess,but also detect the culture fictor of the deep and the core. The author starts with the transmissiong of myth of NÇšWa in the south minority nationality area. Analysis on the influence of the former to the latter,meanwhile, south minority nationality area acceptance, identification and modification. Discovering myth of Goddess has some characterristic of transplantation, modification and developmentThe paper thinks that in the influention of the pluralistic and organic-whole pattern of Chinese nation, different nation has their own myth, different myths effect each others, which becoming shared properity development,enriching Chinese cultural treasury. It has very important significance for after.