古希腊人的祖先崇拜与奥运圣火的起源

Ancient Greek’s Ancestral Worship and the Origin of Olympic Torch

奥运圣火并不是起源于人类对恩神普罗米修斯的纪念,而是起源于他们的祖先崇拜。随着古希腊社会的发展,在祖先崇拜的基础上不仅产生了英雄崇拜与神氏崇拜,更产生了古希腊的各种竞技会。同样也是在祖先崇拜的基础上,最初对死者的火葬逐渐演化成了家族祭坛之火,氏族英雄的火祭与城邦各神灵的祭坛之为。于是火便完成了最初由民间百姓实用工具向神圣性的转化。奥林匹亚竞技会祭坛上的圣火最终便演化成了现代奥运圣火。

Olympic torch did not originate from the memorial of Prometheus,but from the man’s worship of ancestor.With the social development of ancient Greece,on the basis of ancestral worship,the worship of hero and god came about and then various competitions followed.Also based on the worship of ancestors,the cremation of the dead gradually evolved into the fire of family sacrificial altar,the fire for the sacrifice of heroes and the fire for the gods of city states.As a result,fire gradually transformed from a practical tool among folks into a holy thing.The fire in the altar of Olympiad competitions eventually became the modern Olympic torch.