中国与希腊创世神话比较

A Comparison Between Chinese And Greek Mythologies About the Creation

希腊开辟神话有关太古时期的天地观念与中国神话相似;中希神话中人的诞生都经历了一个原始血婚时期;都存在对动物的崇拜——图腾崇拜,并以主神为中心形成了一个神的统治集团。但希腊神话构成了一个以宙斯为中心的神话系统,而中国神话的重要神缺乏婚配和子嗣的亲缘关系,形象创造一般呈兀自分散状态;中希神话还有"感生"与"感性"之别;中希开辟神话中神的形象的发展和演变,是与社会的发展、变革同步的,人们的目光逐步由神转向人、由自然转向社会、由神灵转向人生,是历史发展的必然规律。

The concept of Heaven and Earth of Greek mythology about the Creation is similar to that of China. The birth of both the Chinese and the Greek has had a primitive period of blood-related marriage, a totemism, which considered a certain animal to have a close relation with a family group and formed a ruling circle of deities with sacred gods as the core. The Greek mythology forms a system with Zeus as the core while the Chinese mythology takes a still and dispersed shape because its sacred gods lack a relation of marriage and inheritance. Their difference also lies in induction and perception. The development and evolution of the images of gods in the two mythologies took place together with that of the society. It is an inexorable law of the historic development for the people to turn their attention from gods to human beings, from nature to society and from divinities to human life.