Abstract
In Plato's Dialogues, Socrates repeatedly claimed that poets were the inspired spokesmen of the god. In the Westernized context of modern disciplines, the function of story and lyrics becomes opaque and hard to understand. The so-called celestial script is an important cultural phenomenon, and from the perspective of literary anthropology, the motif of celestial script implies a long-standing tradition of oracle. The motif originates from the shaman ritual system of deity-communication, divination, disaster-prevention, evocation, and healing. The celestial script bestowed by deities and the secondary oral cultural tradition fulfill the need of the primitive people for extraordinary knowledge, ability and longevity, and behind the need is the sacred tradition of oral culture in the antiquity manifested as the ideas of communication between the human and the heaven and knowledge granted by deities. The sacred tradition, the paper concludes, is the origin of the collective unconscious narrative of mythology.
First Page
196
Last Page
204
Recommended Citation
Li, Yongping. 2013. "Ecstasy and Writing: A Reflection on the Cultural Motif of the Celestial Script." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.196-204. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/7
