365bet娱乐

3 276
morning and evening stars to dawn and dusk. Hillebrandt
in his Vedische Mythologie identifies Surya with Usas,
and Mannhardt supports this view. oldenberg, however,
is opinion that Surya is the 'sun-maiden. This view is
supported by very old concepts of the feminine sun
(cf Die Sonne in German) as she is celebrated in many
old Teutonic myths and also in the fairy-tales told by
the brothers Grimm. *The motif of the sun as a goddess
instead of as a god is a rare and precious survival from
an archaic, apparently once widely diffused, mythological
The great maternal divinity of South Arabia
context.
the
A
The
is feminine sun Ilat. Throughout Siberia as well as in
North America scattered stories survive of a female sun'
(Joseph Campbell, "The hero with a thousand faces", p. 213.)
The Japanese sun-goddess Amataresu is another example.
sun is mild and pleasant in Siberia, North America and
northern Europe, hence the tendency of the mythopoeic mind
to imagine it as a maiden who bestows mild warmth is quite
understandable, and this may have lead to the creation of
Surya. The Sun-goddess of Arinna was sometimes addressed
as a god. The transformation of a god into a goddess and
vice versa is not uncommon in mythology; one remembers
the Japanese Kwannon, goddess of mercy, who is just a
geminine form of the Avalokitesvara Buddha transplanted
in Japan. Thus S奴rya and S奴ry膩 would appear at the
mutually convertible forms of the sun, the conversion
only emphasised certain"i power and brilliance in the
masculine form, warmth, charm and mildness in the feminine
MS
form.
traits
n
5 Dr. Sukumari Bhattacharji. The Indian Theogony, pp. 224-225.