{"id":516,"date":"2010-07-22T01:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xiulong.it\/Dongba\/conferences\/?p=516"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:02:41","slug":"creatures-mythiques-animales-dans-les-manuscrits-naxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xiulong.it\/Dongba\/2010\/07\/22\/creatures-mythiques-animales-dans-les-manuscrits-naxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cr\u00e9atures mythiques animales dans les manuscrits naxis"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> Stefano Zamblera<\/em> – Xiulong<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Cr\u00e9atures mythiques animales dans les manuscrits naxis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Complete study made for Arras Congress: “Les signes d\u2019animaux et de cr\u00e9atures mythiques en Orient et en Occident<\/em>“<\/p>\n

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This is the complete work I’ve made and written for Arras 2010 congress, focused on the signs dedicated to mythical animals in Naxi – Dongba tradition.<\/div>\n
According to the\u00a0 “recommandation aux auteurs”\u00a0 edited for “Arras Publication du Colloque”\u00a0 the paper I wrote in English, from which I derived the slides of the presentation of the the congress presented by Mademoiselle Laura Benedikter was too much longer:\u00a0 1650.00 characters against the edge of 35.000 permitted by the recommandation. Moreover a French traduction is required for the final pubblication of the acts of the congress, thus for the latter – thanks to Nathalie Beaux –\u00a0 a complete revision and edition of the written studies of the topics is required.<\/div>\n
I truly believe that all the material I’ve written should be helpful to be published here, avoiding dipsersion of data, expecially for the concordances and attestations I’ve realized about the animal-deities signs into Naxi Dongba manuscripts, and the cross references among Naxi – Dongba cultural elements and Tibetan\/Indian\/Chinese ones.<\/div>\n
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<\/span>My study of texts of manuscripts, iconographies, detailed analisys of signs of animals associated to supernatural entities evinced:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span><\/span>Ss\u00f9 \u2013 serpent cult<\/span><\/strong>. Based of the veneration of the serpent-tailed and human-body spirits, a life-god entity. Propitiated for granting prosperity and fertility, closely associated to rain and water, able to provoke terrible misfortunes if got hungry with humans. In this study it’s directly related to the traditions of kLu<\/em> in Tibet, <\/span>N\u0101ga<\/em>
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\u00b7<\/span><\/span>Bird-god cult<\/span><\/strong>. Bird deities are powerful, strong, able to suppress the serpents-spirits and devour them. Able to spell charms, allied to Shilo <\/em>the founder of Dongba tradition. In this study the bird-gods of Naxi \u2013 Dongba pantheon are associated to mythologies of Khyung<\/em>–chen<\/em> of Tibet and Garuda<\/em> of India.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span><\/span>Serpent vs. Eagle fight myth<\/span><\/strong>, here directly related to the mythologies of kLu versus Khyung-chen of Tibet and Naga versus Garuda of India<\/span><\/p>\n

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As emerged from manuscripts and according to Naxi tradition, I mean the central figure of Dongba<\/em> Shilo<\/em> not just as the founder of Dongba religion, but as directly related to the Enlightened Buddha sTompa gShen-rab<\/em> of <\/span>B\u00f6n tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Methodology of research<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to the theme of the <\/span>colloque<\/span>, the methodology of study I adopted mostly consisted in the research of signs from documents, as the signs are pictographs which were made of an animal-based graphic unit, directly relate to deities. Once they’ve been found the study of the functions of signs ad of the context was the way followed: <\/span>identification of readings and meanings associated to pertinent signs, alias the research of the signs’ phonetic and semantic values, the identification and the interpretation of iconographic motifs associated to the pertinent sign. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then I studied the context, which here is meant as the study of the signs surrounding the pertinent one in an adjacent part of text (mostly the rubric containing the pertinent pictograph), as the research of eventual relationship with surrounding signs in adjacent parts of text for the identification of eventual association patterns among signs,.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once sign was identified as pertinent, alias study of the sign and its contexts evinced that by this significant a deity was meant, then a deeper analysis I started, focused on the detailed study of the iconography represented by the sign and its variants, the reconstruction of iconologies, also with the help of cross-studies focused on related (but non necessary Naxi) cultural, iconographic and iconologic elements; this methodology permitted to the author some integrations with non Naxi \u2013 Dongba directly related documentation, as Indian, Tibetan and Chinese.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First stage of my study, which consisted in the identification of pertinent signs, was performed by <\/span>the analysis of available sources which contains attestations of pictographs with an animal-based graphic unit. Nature of available sources evinced the possibility of making use of two kind of attestations: direct and indirect attestations.<\/span><\/p>\n