上古先民以直觀角度感知世界，本文結合《說文》相關字群與古文字之研究，透過字義分析，結合文獻資料，反映出古代文化在文字中所遺存下來的訊息，包括文化形成的背景、內容的特質、繼承與發展等。關於神話與《說文》相關字群研究，本文論述類別有三：圖騰與數字符號；自然天神崇拜；鬼神靈巫信仰，從此三方面探討文字所承載的神話思維，論及漢字發展過程中，神話因子注入之影響力。 本論文共分六章。第一章〈緒論〉說明研究動機與研究範圍，介紹研究概況與研究方法步驟。第二章〈神話與文字的關聯〉從神話源流與特質切入，藉由神話載體之一的文字，探索文字起源。第三章〈圖騰與數字符號之原始思維〉揭櫫圖騰崇拜與造字之關聯，「書畫同源說」可證文字保留原始文字的象形特點。其次，藉由數字符號神秘意義之分析，歸納出先民之抽象原始思維。第四章〈自然天神崇拜與文字〉，分別就太陽、星月、雷電、風雨、虹等自然天神崇拜展開論述。第五章〈鬼神靈巫信仰與文字〉以《說文•鬼部》字為主軸，分別就崇拜和恐懼心理，對鬼部字所反映的鬼神文化進行論述，由鬼頭形象切入人鬼關係，進而連結到作為溝通鬼神媒介之靈巫相關字群探討。第六章〈結論〉綜述上古神話對文字的影響。從神話原型與文字關聯，及其對漢字起源發展的影響力，探索先民在原始思維支配下對萬物的觀察，則為本論文研究之目的。 The main purpose of this article is to combine Shuowen related word and ancient writing through the analysis of word meaning and documentation database to reflect the remaining messages and indications ancient culture. Including the background of the cultural formation, content characteristics, inheritance and development, here are three classifications to describe myth and Shuowen related word: (a) Totem and figure symbols; (b) nature worship god; and (c) witch supernatural beliefs. Basically, discussing these three aspects to consider the additional influence from myth of thinking, character development processes, and the myth of the injection This dissertation is divided into six chapters. Outlines about each chapter are as follows: Chapter 1: prelude. Introduce research survey and research method steps to explain the motive and scope of the study. Chapter 2: Associated with the myth and text. Cut from the myth of origins and characteristics also take advantage of text which is one of myth loading to discover the origins of the writing. Chapter 3: Original thinking of totem and numeral symbols. Start from the relationship between totem worship and created characters; however, according to the theory of “Homologous of Book and Picture” to demonstration that text can retain the original text features. Secondly, by analysis the mysterious figures of symbolic meaning to summary the ancient pioneers’ abstract thinking. Chapter 4: Worship of nature gods and text. Respectively on the sun, moon, stars, lightning, storm, rainbow, and other natural gods adore to start on describing. Chapter5: Witch supernatural beliefs and language. By using “Ghost • Shuowen” as the main character, separately describe on worship and fear to reflect the culture of supernatural discourse about the department of the word “ghost”. Cut by the icon of ghost head to the relationship between human beings and ghost, and finally contact as the medium tool between super natural and witch of groups of related words. Chapter 6: Conclusion. To overview all factors of influence for ancient myth to text: focus on archetypes and text from the association; target its influence on the development of Chinese origin; and explore how primitive ancestors observe all things by dominated thinking are the final purpose of this dissertation.
