Sons of suns

The 'problem of myth' for Western philosophers is a problem of interpreting the meaning of myths and explaining the phenomenon of myth making. The 'problem of myth' for the sinologist is one of finding any myths to interpret and explaining why there are so few-for myth-making is generally assumed to be a universal faculty of mankind. One explanation for the paucity of myth in the traditional sense of stories of the supernatural in ancient Chinese texts is the nature of Chinese religion. In China, gods, as well as ancestors and ghosts, were believed to be dead men, spirits who had lived in this world at a certain place and time and continued to need sustenance from the living and to exert influence over them. They related primarily to those who gave them ritual offerings and little thought was given to any possible interaction between them

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Mythology · Phenomenon · Political science · Sustenance · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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  Open Access•Thomas F Thornton, Patricia M Thornton•Environment and Society•2015

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• China and the world

  Rupert Hodder•The Pacific Review•1999

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• Sarah Allan, Buried Ideas

  Open Access•Mark Edward Lewis•Early China•2016

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• On the Identity of Shang Di and the Origin of the Concept of a Celestial Mandate ( Tian Ming )

  Open Access•Sarah Allan•Early China•2007

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• Myth and Meaning in Shang Bronze Motifs

  Open Access•Sarah Allan•Early China•1985

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• Epiphanies of Sovereignty and the Rite of Jade Disc Immersion in Weft Narratives

  Open Access•Grégoire Espesset•Early China•2014

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• Form and symbolism

  Open Access•Armiyaw Sulemana, Ebenezer Fiifi Mensah et al.•Cogent Arts and Humanities•2025

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• The Jishi Outburst Flood of 1920 bce and the Great Flood Legend in Ancient China

  Open Access•Sarah Allan•Journal of Chinese Humanities•2017

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• Narrar tudo aquilo que está abaixo do Céu

  Open Access•Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto•História da Historiografia…•2024

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• Neolithic and Shang Periods

  Open Access•David N Keightley•The Journal of Asian Studies•1995

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• The Three-Bodied Shun and the Completion of Creation

  Open Access•Robert G Henricks•Bulletin of the School of…•1996

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• Han Tomb Art of West China

  Richard C Rudolph•Han Tomb Art of West China•1951

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• Ancient China

  Paul W Kroll, David T Roy et al.•Chinese Literature Essays…•1981

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• The Origins of Statecraft in China

  E G Pulleyblank, Herrlee Glessner Creel•The American Historical Review•1972

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• Sources of Shang History

  Lester J Bilsky, David N Keightley•The American Historical Review•1979

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• The Pronominal Use of the Verb Yu (Gi̭ŭg) * in Early Archaic Chinese

  Open Access•David Shepherd Nivision•Early China•1977

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• Danses et légendes de la Chine ancienne

  Marcel Granet•Danses et légendes de la Chine…•2004

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• On the Ideographic Element in Ancient Chinese

  Herrlee Glessner Creel•T oung Pao•1938

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• Ways to Paradise, the Chinese Quest for Immortality

  Alexander Coburn Soper, Michael Loewe•Artibus Asiae•1983

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• L'Astronomie Chinoise Avant Les Han

  Henri Maspero•T oung Pao•1929

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• Ways to Paradise

  Derk Bodde, Michael Loewe•Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies•1982

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• Han Tomb Art of West China

  A G Wenley, Richard C Rudolph et al.•The Far Eastern Quarterly•1952

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• Mythologies of the Ancient World

  Open Access•Katharine Luomala, Samuel Noah Kramer•Western Folklore•1962

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• The Religious Commitment

  David N Keightley•History of Religions•1978

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