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The Dragon and the Rainbow
Robert Blust
其他書名
Man’s Oldest Story
出版BRILL, 2023-08-21
主題Social Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN90046783019789004678309
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KNb7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon.
The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.