古欧洲女神宗教的延续与变异

Continuity and Transformation of the Old European Goddesses

按照古欧洲人的观念,大地上的生命处于永恒的周期性转化之中。因而,将所有女神像视作核心职能为赐予生命、掌控死亡、使万物再生与复元的同一位大女神的不同方面似乎更加合适。古欧洲人与外来的印欧宗教冲突的结果,在古欧洲女神的被贬黜,神庙、礼器和神圣标记的消失,以及视觉艺术中宗教意象的急剧削减中清晰可见。不过,这种转变并非一种文化被另一种文化所取代,而是两种不同象征体系的逐渐融合。古欧洲女神宗教暗中仍在延续。

According to the understanding of Old European people,the life on earth is in e- ternal transformation. It seems more appropriate to view all of these Goddesses images as as- pects of the one Great Goddess with her core functions--life-giving,death-wielding,regeneration and renewal. The outcome of the clash of Old European with alien Indo-European religious forms is visible in the dethronement of Old European goddesses,the disappearance of temples, cult paraphernalia,and sacred signs,and the drastic reduction of religious images in the visual arts. This transformation,however,was not a replacement of one culture by another but a grad- ual hybridization of two different symbolic systems. The Goddess＇s religion went underground.