女神文明与城邦——苏美尔女神伊南娜的图像神话与叙事

Goddess Civilization and City-state: the Iconographic Myth and Narrative about Sumerian Goddess Inanna

从神话叙事的角度看,神话不仅体现在文字书写上,也存在于其它形式与载体中,比如图像。女神伊南娜是两河流域重要的神明。伊南娜同苏美尔城邦乌鲁克联系极为紧密。伊南娜的神话在史诗、王表及其它泥板中,通过文字的形式得到了记载。后人借助文字的破译能够复现这一女神形象。一件出土的乌鲁克花瓶上的图像更为直观地展现了伊南娜的女神形象,作为一种图像神话,同文字叙事一样,也起到了叙事的作用。这一女神的图像神话既是"可视的"亦是"可言的"。

From the perspective of sacred narrative,myths are not only displayed in texts but also exist in their forms and carriers,such as,images. As an important deity in Mesopotamia,Goddess Inanna has a close link with one Sumerian city- state Uruk whose myths are recorded in epics,king lists and other tablets in texts. The later generations reconstruct her images by decoding the written texts. These images on an unearthed Uruk vase more directly display the goddess Inanna as an iconographic myth that also narrates like a textual narration. The iconographic myth of goddess Inanna can be ＂visual＂and can be uttered as well.