北美印第安神话传说中的文化英雄

发布时间：2018-03-26 05:46

本文选题：印第安　切入点：文化英雄　出处：《世界民族》2013年05期

【摘要】：文化英雄是北美印第安传统文化中的重要形象之一,广泛存在于印第安各部族的神话传说和民间故事中。在印第安口头故事中,文化英雄的形态多样,尤以郊狼为代表的动物最为常见。北美印第安文化英雄通常具有创造世界、整顿混世和教化人类的神圣职责,是人类世界和人类文化的伟大造福者;然而,在担当神圣角色的同时,他们往往又表现出好色、自私、欺诈、偷盗等世俗的恶习,是文化传统和道德规范的违背者。这种形态多样、且集神圣性和世俗性于一体的形象看似矛盾,但如从印第安传统文化的视角加以审视则不难看出,它们不仅体现了印第安人相信自然万物皆是亲缘的传统信仰,而且彰显出印第安民族追求和谐统一、平衡共存的宇宙观。
[Abstract]:Cultural hero is one of the most important images in North American Indian traditional culture. It is widely found in the mythology and folklore of Indian tribes. In the oral Indian stories, the forms of cultural heroes are varied. The animals represented by coyotes are the most common. North American Indian cultural heroes usually have the sacred duty of creating the world, rectifying and indoctrinating mankind, and being the great beneficiaries of the human world and human culture; however, In their sacred roles, they tend to exhibit secular evils, such as sex, selfishness, fraud, theft, and so on. They are violators of cultural traditions and moral norms. The images of sacredness and secularity seem contradictory, but it is not difficult to see from the perspective of Indian traditional culture that they not only embody the traditional beliefs that Indians believe that all natural things are related. And the Indian nation's pursuit of harmony and unity, balanced coexistence of the cosmos.
【作者单位】：江苏师范大学外国语学院;
【基金】：江苏师范大学2010年校级科研课题重点项目“印第安神话传说与印第安文艺复兴的传承关系研究”(项目编号:10XWA04) 国家社科基金项目“当代美国印第安文学研究”(项目编号:11BWW054)的研究成果
【分类号】：B932

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