支配与和谐——南方民族与自然关系神话中的深层意识

Domination and Harmony——Deep Consciousness in the Myths Which Show the Relationships between Southern Ethnic Groups and then nature

在南方民族与自然关系神话里,先民总是力图树立起寄托自己愿望的形象,通过创造性的劳动,以及与其他自然物的较量,在自然界或某一领域居于主宰的地位,以达到自己的功利目的。同时,通过这一类形象表现与大自然的紧密关系,体现一种与大自然和谐共处的思想,并制约人类内部某些过度的行为,保护自己生存的自然环境。

In the myths which show the relationships between Southern ethnic groups and the nature, ancestors at all times tried to let the images that they built up and contained their desires contest with other natural factors through creative labor, so as to be the dominative part in the nature or in some field, and eventually turn their material gains into truth. On the other hand, they used these images to express the intimate relationship between human and nature, and to embody the thought of harmonious coexisting with the nature. At the same time, the myths would restrict some human excessive activities inside and protect the natural environment surrounding human beings.