神话变形的式样及其发生的原理

On Types of Mythological Metamorphosis and Their Principles

变形是神话最核心的本质。神话研究大家如谢林、卡西尔等对神话变形的研究作出了重要的贡献。但是到目前为止,中外神话学界还没有对神话的变形式样作系统化研究。本文在吸取了中外学者研究成果的基础上,用图腾式变形、情感式变形、想象式变形、梦幻式变形和进化式变形"五式",概述、归纳了纷繁复杂的神话变形现象,并对这"五式"变形发生的原理作理式的阐释。

The metamorphosis is the core nature of mythology. Schelling and Cassirer,the world famous philosophers,both had contributed greatly to this area. But mythological metamorphosis has not been investigated logically and systematically. Based on the achievement devoted by the former researchers,the paper tries to shaped all kinds of metamorphosis into five types—totemic type,emotional type,imaginational type,dreamlike type and evolutional type,and explains how each type performs.