試論台灣地牛神話的形成與發展

對地處環太平洋地震帶的台灣而言，地震所誘發的死亡威脅便不斷地環伺著福爾摩沙之島。地牛翻身不僅為台灣社會對於地震成因重要的解釋之一，更是各大媒體報導地震新聞的代名詞。在傳統地牛翻身的印象式氛圍下，對於台灣地牛神話形成、發展及比較的探究著墨不深。本文擬從文獻學及神話學的視野切入，分別就台灣地牛神話的產生、台灣地牛神話的演變及台灣與漢族地牛神話的比較等問題加以研究，管窺埋藏在地底世界下地牛神話的神秘面貌。全文凡四節：首節為本文問題的產生；次節從神話的形成及文獻學的視野切入，重新探究台灣地牛神話的起源；第三節分析台灣地牛神話由多元發展而演變成獨尊的形成脈絡及台灣原住民與漢族地牛神話的比較。最後為結語及參考書目。

關鍵字

地牛神話；原住民神話；地震神話；震災文學；比較神話

並列摘要

As to Taiwan located and surrounded the earthquake zone of the Pacific Ocean, Death threat of the earthquake watches Formosa island constantly. Di-nui(地牛)stands up is not merely one of the important explanations of earthquake cause in Taiwan society, it is the pronoun that every medias report the earthquake news even more. Under the traditional impression type atmosphere of di-nui(地牛)stands up, the formation, development and comprehensive comparison of Taiwan di-nui(地牛)myth of can not be tudied deeply. This text plan to study formation, development of Taiwan di-nui(地牛)myth and comprehensive comparison with Chinese di-nui(地牛)myth from the vision of philology and mythology. There are four chapters in this essay. The chapter one is to expose the problem of this essay. The chapter two is to analyze the formation of Taiwan di-nui(地牛)myth again from the vision of philology and mythology. The chapter three is to analyze the characteristic that soly respect through plural development of Taiwan di-nui(地牛)myth and the comprehensive comparison of Taiwan aboriginal and the Han nationality di-nui(地牛)myth. The chapter four is coclusion and bibliography.