从佤族“葫芦”崇拜看母性生殖崇拜意义

On the Significance of Maternal Reproductive Worship from“Gourd” Worship of Wa People

生殖崇拜是人类对男女生殖器官执以宗教的崇拜与祭祀的一种文化现象,是人类最原始的信仰,也是最具特色的信仰。生殖崇拜首先体现在女性崇拜中,女性崇拜体现在各民族原始宗教信仰的各个方面。葫芦作为一种特殊的生殖符号是人类原始母性崇拜的重要遗存和祭奠,体现了人类对于葫芦与自身关系的探求和信仰,在传统文化中潜移默化地发挥着作用。从洪水神话中的葫芦形象出发,揭示以葫芦为象征的母性生殖崇拜,对于重新审视和挖掘女性崇拜的文化地位,具有不容忽视的学术意义和当代价值。

Reproductive worship is the religious ritual of human male and female reproductive organs and a cultural phenomenon of worship ceremony and also the most primitive and distinctive belief of mankind. The reproductive worship is first reflected in the female worship in which original religions and beliefs of all ethnic groups are presented everywhere. As a special reproductive symbol, the gourd is an important remains and ceremony of human primitive maternal worship and reflects the human quest and belief in the relationship between the gourd and itself as well as an unconscious influence in traditional culture. In perspective of the gourd image in the flood myth, the paper reveals the gourd as a symbol of the maternal reproductive worship and reexamines the cultural status of female worship, showing its aca- demic significance and contemporary values that cannot be ignored.