论神话起源的文化机制

The Cultural Mechanism of the Rise of Myth

本文认为历史含味和诗性质素是构成神话起源的两种文化机制。作为文化功能,神话发挥着它的现实作用,蕴含着历史存在的真实因素;另一方面,作为原始心智的产物,神话浸透着浓厚的诗性意味,因此,可以如是说,神话乃是一种幻想的观念形态。

The paper expounds the author's view that the historic significances and the poetic elements are the two kinds of cultural mechanism of the rise of myth. As the cultural function,the myth plays the practical role. And as the production of original mind, the myth is soaked with the poetic elements.So, we can say, the myth is a kind of ideology of fantasy.