祝融神话及其神格演变

Myth of Zhu Rong and the Evolution of Its Godhead

祝融作为神话中的火神,在阴阳五行学说的渗透下,也被当作南方神。当"海"作为四方方位的代称时,南方神和南海神混淆起来。随着人们对世界的认知扩大,南海变成地理意义上的实指,祝融又具了南海神之职,朝廷给南海神的加封也落到了他的身上。古老神话人物在传统思想观念作用下完成了神格上的巨大转变,从而兼备火神、海神(水神)两种矛盾的神格。

Zhu Rong,as the god of fire in the myth,is also regarded as the southern god under the penetration of Yin-Yang and Five-elements theology.When the"sea"as the pronoun of the four-way position,the southern god and the South China Sea god confused.As people’s understanding of the world expanded,the South China Sea became a geographical sense of the real finger,Zhu Rong holds the post of god of South China Sea,the imperial court to the god of South China Sea title also fell to him.The ancient mythological figures have completed a great transformation of the god head under the effect of traditional ideas,thus creating two contradictory godhead,the god of fire and the god of the sea(the god of water).