TY  - JOUR
TT  - RATIONAL MYTHOS AND IRRATIONAL LOGOS: THE NARRATIVE FORMS OF CHINA’S ‘SHE’ PEOPLE
AU  - Saı, Yan
PY  - 2015
DA  - September
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 25
EP  - 37
VL  - 3
KW  - Myth
KW  - logo
KW  - she ethnic group
KW  - epic
N2  - This article considers the myths of China’s She people in the light ofthe distinction made by western mythographers between mythos and logos.  In the analysis of ancient Greek myths, mythosand logos have been seen as standing for irrational and rationalelements, respectively. Within the Chinese education system, however, myths andhistory are not rigorously separated, and people believe that myths tell ofreal events that happened in prehistoric times. By examining my collections of She narrative epics and graphicdepictions of these stories, I will suggest that the association of logos withthe rational and mythos with the irrational is reversed in the She case,and that the effective transmission of the epics down the generations hasrequired the adoption of rational elements to the oral tradition or mythos, whilstthe sacred or irrational component of the stories is preserved in the graphicdepictions or logos.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//332398
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/331341
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