红石岩彝族人类起源神话崖画初探

A Brief Exploration to Red Rock Cliff Painting for Human Origin Mythology of Yi Nationality

红石岩崖画彝文配图,图绘"怪异人"、"半人半兽人"、"标准人"形象,对应彝族人类起源神话的化生生人、感生生人、性生生人神话思维。崖画折射出父系氏族社会晚期的游牧经济生活,又与今天开远高寒山区彝族活形态的人类起源神话链接,形成一条源远流长的人类起源神话文化脉络。

The red rock cliff paintings have pictures with Yi language explanation. The pictures of weird man, half man and half beast and the standard man are corresponding to the mythological thinkings in alive man, man of sense and man with sex in human origin mythology of Yi nationality. They reflect the nomad economy in the late of the patriarchal society and link to human origin mythology of the present living situations for Yi nationality in the high and cold mountain areas in Kaiyuan, forming a cultural context of human origin mythology with a long history.