论土地神观念的产生——以民族学、人类学为中心的考察

本文在引用大量民族学、人类学相关论述的基础上,对史前时期土地神观念产生的两个阶段予以了详尽的分析,指出:土地神观念的产生始于原始社会自然宗教时期万物有灵思想下的土地有灵意识,但这时人类土地崇拜的对象,仍然是作为自然的土地,并未具有神的观念。当原始人类由土地生养万物联系到女性也具有土地一样的生殖功能,由单纯的土地崇拜转向“地-母”崇拜,土地神的人格化现象渐趋成型,土地神的观念到此才真正产生了。

On the Creation of the Idea of Land God

This paper based on the ethnology and anthropology,Discuss two stages of the idea of land god in the prehistoric period;get conclusions that the creation of the idea of land god comes from the primitive society natural religion period when people thought that everthing had spirit and set land as their worship objective.But the worship objective was natural land without any idea of god.When the land was personified as the generative capability of female linked together with the productivity of lan.Thus the idea of land god came into being.