实体与灵魂的转换——南方民族动植物祖先神话萌生的心理因素

在研究动植物图腾、动植物祖先或动植物生人神话时,一大难题就是原始先民通过什么样的思维把一种动植物想象成自己的图腾、自己的祖先,其中的转换过程现代人很难通过自己的经验想象出来.根据中国南方民族的情况,动植物图腾、动植物祖先或动植物生人神话产生的根源,在生活中可能由于食用、庇荫等关系,在感情状态上基于感恩、敬畏等心理,在观念上出于"实体、灵魂转移"等想法,具体引发它们之间联系的,最原始的起点可能是梦.

The Switches of Substantiality and Soul——The Psychological Factors of the Ancient Myths Origin about Animals and Plants in the Southern Ethnic Groups

When studying the myths about the totems of animals and plants,ancestors born of animals and plants,or animals or plants giving birth to humans,one of thehang-ups is what kind of thought was used to imagine some kind of animal or plant as one's totem or ancestor,so much so that the switching process is hard to be imagined by modern human's experience.According to the situations of southern ethnic groups in China,the roots of myths about the relationship between human beings and animals or plants,might come from the experience of feeding or sheltering in life,of the psychology of thanksgiving or fearing in human emotional situation,and of diversion between substantiality and soul in thinking.Dreams might be the primitive start point which concretely aroused their relationships.