创世母神:老子“道”论的本喻

The World-creating Goddess:the Metaphor of Lao Zi's Tao

作为"轴心期"道家智慧的结晶,《老子》积淀着丰厚的史前文化信息。"道"的概念,就是老子对创世母神这一原始思维意象抽象化的结果,可以说,"道"是创世母神的本体抽象,创世母神是"道"的本体喻象。正如黑格尔所说,任何神话中的诸神都是客观的或者实在的直观到的理念。创世母神就是老子直观到的关于宇宙本始的理念。

As the representative of the Taoist wisdom of“axial age”,“Lao Zi”is rich in prehistoric cultural information.“Tao”is the result of abstract thinking by Lao Zi about the original thinking of world-creating Goddess.Therefore,“Tao”is the abstraction of noumenon of the world-creating Goddess,and the world-creating Goddess is a metaphor of Lao Zi’s Tao.Just like Hegel once said that in any myths all gods were ideas which were perceived objectively or concretely.The world-creating Goddess is an idea about the beginning of the universe perceived by Lao Zi.