The Reasearch Of The Water Image In The Oriental Aquatic Source Myth

Mythology is a serious story reflecting the spiritual basis of a society.It is a symbol of human experience of the world,and also contains the desire of early human beings to transform nature and conquer the world.Among all kinds of myths,there is a kind of myth which is very special.Its birth is earlier than other types of myths,and its content mostly shows the young and vague understanding of the world of early human beings.This kind of myth is the explanation myth.Among them,there are many different types,among which the aquatic type is a quite large one.Water is a very common element in mythology.No matter it is the myth of aquatic origin,or the myth of aquarium and Water God,they are always inseparable from this myth motif.There are countless myths related to water in the world,but the object of this paper is only a small part of them-the water image in the Oriental aquatic myth.It should be said that this title determines the research content of this paper from different dimensions.The first is the "East" in the dimension of geographical region,the second is the research scope,namely the "aquatic origin myth",and the last is the research object,namely the "water image".Then,according to the content determined by this title,the basic idea of this paper is to list some cases of Oriental aquatic myth,and then extract the water image in these cases,and then further study and analyze them.The main content of this paper is also composed of the above parts,which are:the listing of the myth text of aquatic type,the classification of water image,the analysis of the formation mechanism of water image,the transformation and variation of water image.The ultimate purpose of this paper is to further on the basis of predecessors,try to decipher the generation and change of water image in Oriental aquatic myth from a more comprehensive perspective,so as to provide some ideas for us to restore the early state of human thinking and consciousness.