彝族谷种神话与母体崇拜

The mythology on rice seeds and the maternity worship of the Yi people

彝族先民视水为生命之源，万物之母。浑沌演化谷种，实际上是说谷种来源于母体。虎一度被视为阴性，虎尸创生谷种是母体崇拜的体现。黑埃波罗赛、阿黑西尼摩、阿卜多莫等神是雌性无疑。葫芦神话是对神秘的母体生殖能力的崇拜。箭筒是女阴的象征，而“伙头田”实际上就是子宫。“雌燕”、“布袋”、“通天河中的水”、“母狗”、“又黑又窄的山洞”等，均与母体密切相联。彝族谷种神话无一例外地体现了对母体的崇拜。

The Yi people consider water the origin of life and the mother of world creatures. The legend of chaos evolving into rice seeds is in fact an indication of their belief that the rice came from a maternal body. The tiger used to be regarded as female in gender and the changing into rice of the dead tiger embodies the maternity worship.Hei Ai Bo Luo Sai,A Hei Xi Ni Mo,A Pu Duo Mo and the like are no doubt goddesses. The Gourd Myth shows the worship for the reproductive capacity of the maternal body among the Yi people. The quiver symbolizes the female genitals while Huo Tou Tian represents the womb.'The female swallow','the cloth sack','the water in the Tongtian River','the she-dog','the dark and narrow cave'and so on are all closely related to the maternal body .In a word,all the myths on rice of the Yi people have something to do with their maternity worship.