中国南方神话中的一种文化起源解释——结构主义视角下的“绝地天通”神话

On the Origin of the Culture in the Southern Chinese Myths: Structural Analyses of Myths About the Isolation of the Heaven and the Earth

在法国学者列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义神话学的视角下,中国南方不同地域的九则"绝地天通"型神话呈现出相同的深层结构。"绝地天通"过程中中介项的作用和起源以及其共同的深层结构和语义反映出了人类因为产生了文化而与自然决裂的二元对立的无意识认知结构。

In the view of the French scholar Levi-Strauss＇s theory of structural mythology, the myths about the isolation of the heaven and the earth in different regions Southern China show their deep structure. By analyzing the function and origin of the mediation term in the process of the isolation of heaven and earth, the present paper extracts their common deep structure and semantic meaning to prove that they all manifested human＇s binary opposition in unconscious cognitive structure arising from a rupture between culture and the nature.