Abstract
Manchu traditional culture of fishing and hunting has maintained a relation of harmonic multi-dimensional coexistence with its natural environment. Shamanic mythology has an animistic philosophical foundation with a primitive poetic thinking, holding nature in awe and veneration. Through constant communication with nature, the human beings are situated in the ecological system, and this means that Manchu life had an ecological aesthetics dimension since early. Manchu shamanism advocates animism, the unity of heaven and earth, and the identity of object and self. In shamanic mythology, the human interacts and keeps a kinship with the nature. Shamans communicate with the human and God, which may be understood as Heidegger's "quartet game" between the human and God, and Manchu shamanic mythology exhibits the characteristics of ecological aesthetics.
First Page
190
Last Page
195
Recommended Citation
Yan, Lijie. 2013. "Manchu Shamanist Mythology and Ecological Aesthetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.190-195. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/11
