云南少数民族创世神话中的生殖主题

Reproduction Subject in the Creation Myth of Yunnan Ethnic Groups

在云南少数民族看来,人的生命同自身还没有关系,人的创造是神和崇拜物以母体为化育器来完成的。只有初期的原始婚姻形态形成后,人们才隐略地猜测到了生育与男女交媾之间的因果关系。

In the view of Yunnan ethnic groups, the life of people does not concern with themselves at first, the creation of person is incubated in the mother＇s body of the supernatural and worship things. After the forms of original marriage appeared, people slightly began to know the cause and effect relation between the reproduction and sexual intercourse of male and female. It is a huge advancement in the history of human understanding and the reproduction thought that the role of male in the reproduction had been recognized.