论殷卜辞中“河”的自然神属性

A Study on the River’s Quality of Nature Gods in the Oracle Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty

甲骨卜辞中'河'作为祭祀对象,商人对之有较为隆重的祭典。其神性与商族先公有诸多相混之处,分析其神职权能并比较与先公的差别,个人认为,'河'虽然兼备一些祖先神的性质,还是被称为自然神为宜。

As the ritual object in the oracle inscriptions on tortoiseshells or animal bones,people in Shang Dynasty hold many grand sacrificial ceremonies for"River".Its nature of gods has a lot of mixed parts with ancestors of Shang people.After analyzing its holy power and comparing with the ancestors of Shang people,the writer thinks that,though"River"possesses some qualities of the ancestor gods,it should be retreated as the nature god.