火与文明:在古希腊宗教视域下对奥运圣火的文化学考察

Fire and Civilization: The Research on the Culture of the Olympic Torch from Ancient Greek Religious Perspective

奥林匹克火炬已经成为奥林匹克运动的一种象征。研究发现,无论是点燃圣火仪式还是传递圣火仪式本身都具有极强的宗教象征意义。从宗教视域下解读奥运会圣火所包含的诸多文化学意义,探寻奥运会点燃圣火和传递圣火仪式的渊源,使人们更好地了解奥运圣火以及圣火传递的意义。

The ceremony of contemporary Olympic Flame is lighting and passing, which is a typically religious worshiping cere mony at the ancient Olympics. The Olympic Flame is a typical religion symbol in ancient Greece. The city-state has state is fire and family has family is fire. In the eye of the Greeks, fire is symbolized the happiness, beauty, health, wealth and all the mag- nificent things. When ancient Greeks worship the God Zeus, they regard the fire as the main offerings. At the meantime ancient Greeks believe public worship will see the oneness before the God, while collective dinner only cognizes it in a worldly way. Reli- gious concepts have already been deeply rooted in every Greek, so their public worship to the God Zeus shows a collective religi-