Iriki By Sending Soul Map Interpretation And Research

"Soul-send Figure"is a very typical religious literature of Namuyi. It is not a text documents, but a painting-literature composed by more than one hundred pictures."Soul-send Figure" is mainly introduced the soul-sending ceremony of the death Namuyi.It is the main props used in the soul-sending ceremony by shaman. And so far,"Soul-send Figure" has not been studied and interpreted officially."Soul-send Figure" is the magnificent spectacle of the culture of Namuyi, which is the important evidence and reference for the researching on the customs, religious, cultural, migration of Namuyi."Soul-send Figure" uses in this article is preserved by XiaoHua Zhu, which lives in Gan Haizi village, Muli County. Mr. Zhu is one of the few person who can interpret the "Soul-send Figure" and preside the ceremony of the soul-sending. This article is finished in Mr. Zhu's help, and he interpreted the "Soul-send Figure" for me. In addition, this paper set up a section to introduce the general situation of Namuyi and its ethnic-origin problems.This paper is focused on the original implication reading of "Soul-send Figure", what's more, it respectively introduces the different images' hiding meaning. On the basis of that, the paper preliminary discusses the value of the philology, religious studies, migratory history and folklore of the culture of Namuyi."Soul-send Figure" is a nonword-recorded written religious literature, is the sapiential crystallization of Namuyi who has no words, it is an effective way to break the Time And Space Constraints of language. The most content of the "Soul-send Figure" is about religion, and in the original cultures of Namuyi, folkways and religion goes together, and religious custom is an important part of life custom."Soul-send Figure" is a "Guide Book"recorded with pictures. In the process of soul-sending ceremony, the routes that souls get back to ancestors place as same as ancestors migration routes. So, its the equivalent question to study the soul-sending line and the migration routes of ancestor.Although "Soul-send Figure" has high research value, but with the continuous development of society progress and he strengthening of national amalgamation, the culture of Namuyi is recession gradually, and its using frequency become more and more low. Nowadays, the people who can read the "Soul-send Figure" is less and less, it don't take long time that "Soul-send Figure" will become an ordinary comic which no one cant interpret. In order to protect "Soul-send Figure" by the numbers and fully, provide the first-hand material for the more scholars, this paper attach with all parts of the pictures.