米诺王权与太阳女神:一种近东文化的共同体

从宗教和文化背景看,克里特与地中海沿岸地区,如美索不达米亚、安纳托利亚、叙利亚,黎凡特地区与埃及,均为地中海文化共同体组成部分。在公元前1650～1380年,克里特与地中海沿岸地区保持着密切的联系,并拥有一些相同的文化与宗教因素。因此,考察克里特岛的米诺王权与神话,宜采用跨文化的比较视角,将其纳入地中海文化共同体中加以阐释。现存的书写资料极为有限,但可以利用克里特黄金戒指上的图像,应用神话图像学理论与方法,解读出具体的文化内涵。

Minoan Kingship and the Sdar Goddess:The Community of a Near East's Culture

From the religious and cultural backgrounds, Crete and the Mediterranean region, such as Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria, the Levant region and Egypt, are all parts of the Mediterra- nean cultural community. From 1650~ 1380 BC, Crete and the Mediterranean region maintained a close contact and had some of the same cultural and religious factors. Therefore, it should adopt the perspective of cross-cultural comparison to study the Minoan kingship and myth, elaborating them in the integrated community of the Mediterranean culture. Although the written existing data are extremely limited,the special cultural connotations can be interpreted by the images on the Crete gold rings,and by theories and methodologies of mythological iconography.