ビルマの建国神話について

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  • Essay on the Founding Myth of the Traditional Kingdom of Burma
  • ビルマ ノ ケンコク シンワ ニ ツイテ

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This article examines the legitimation of kingship in the traditionalkingdom of Burma by analysis of its founding myth, recorded in writtenform in the chronicles. Part III of the Glass Palace Chronicle, "Hmannan-Maha-Yazawin", includes many myths of various motifs as well asversions of the same motif, and its story unfolds from the creation of theworld to the making of the human world, passing through two tales ofvisiting on another world by the founders of the Thayehkettaya dynasty,which imply the change over from nature to culture by their representationof the incest motif. The Chronicle also repeats the theme of thehero, the founder of a new dynasty as well as a usurper: an ideologywhich contradicts the idea of succession through legitimate lineage.This ideology of succession based on royal blood is paralleled by anotherbased on karma, the wheel of fortune in Buddhist thinking. In themyths these ideologies are reconciled by woman, a mediator, albeit anambivalent one. The woman in the myth is also related to the representationof indigenous people and their power.

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