鲧禹创世神话研究述评

Study and Review of Gun Yu's Creation Myth

中外学术界对鲧、禹传说性质的认定,经历了一个由传说到历史、由历史到神话、再由洪水神话到创世神话三个阶段的认知过程。将鲧、禹神话认定为创世神话并进行研究是最近半个世纪的事情。大林太良、叶舒宪、胡万川等人的成果具有重要意义,他们都将鲧、禹神话认定为陆地潜水型创世神话。笔者先前也将其认定为世界父母型创世神话,现在看来,这些观点都有重新探讨的必要。

The affirmation of the nature of Gun Yu＇s fairy tales by the Chinese and foreign academic circles, has gone through three cognitive processes, from legend to history, then from legend to flood fairy tales, fi- nally to creation myths. In the recent half century, many scholars, such as Dalintailang, Ye Shuxian, Hu Wanchuan and so on, who have done a great many meaningful researches, have regarded Gun Yu＇s stories as the land- diving creation myth. The writer, who once regarded Gun Yu＇s creation stories as a parent type, now holds that those viewpoints needs to be discussed again.