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China's creation and origin myths : cross-cultural explorations in oral and written traditions /

How did the world begin? How were the first people created and which specific roles were they supposed to play in the cosmos? Like other mythologies worldwide, China's creation and origin myths explain how man created order out of chaos and imposed culture on nature. Cross-cultural approaches t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schipper, Mineke, Ye, Shuxian, 1954-, Yin, Hubin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Religion in Chinese societies ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Humanity's beginnings in creation and origin myths from around the world / Mineke Schipper
  • The world of Chinese mythology: an introduction / Yang Lihui, An Deming
  • From frog to Nüwa and back again: the religious roots of creation myths / Ye Shuxian
  • Water-of-immortality myths in Altaic and Japanese cultures / G. Namjila
  • Myths of giant corpse transformation / Jung Jaeseo
  • Sacred order: cosmogonic myth in the Chu silk manuscript / Kao Lifeng
  • The wholeness of chaos: Laozi on the beginning / Kristofer Schipper
  • Gun and Yu: revisiting the Chinese "earth-diver" hypothesis / Chen Lianshan
  • Pangu and the origin of the universe / Wu Xiaodong
  • Chinese creation myths: a great discovery / Wu Bing'an
  • Minority creation myths: an approach to classification / Wang Xianzhao
  • Humanism as a paradigm for creation myths / Liu Yahu
  • Performing myths today: a field study of the Renzu temple festival / Yang Lihui
  • Perspectives on the environment in Miao and Yi creation narratives / Mark Bender
  • Anthology of creation and origin myths. Creation Myths in Chinese Minority Cultures. Oroqen Origin, Oroqen ; Dangun, Korean ; All creatures made out of clay, Ewenki ; Bear origin, Ewenki ; God's creation of the world, Manchu ; The first man: son of celestial maiden Fukulun, Manchu ; Creation of the world by Goddess Mai Deer, Mongolian ; Khudai blows to create the heaven and the earth, Salar ; Creation of the mortal world, Tu ; Beauty Ai Sema, Uyghur ; Zhe Pama and Zhe Mima, Achang ; Origin of all living creatures, Bai ; Bu Sanggai and Ya Sanggai, Dai ; How heaven came to be separated from earth, Derung ; Muq pung gyeu, Derung ; Four generations of man, Gelao ; Creation of man, heaven and earth, Hani ; Heaven and earth created by frog, Hani ; Heaven and earth created / by E Ya and Sha Ya, Lahu.