中西海洋文明史 课件PPT Chapter 1 Chinese and Western Ocean Legends、Chapter 2 Chinese and Western Expedition.pptx

Chinese and Western Ocean LegendsChapter I CONTENTS1 Legend of the Ocean Origins2 Legendary Sea Deities3 Legendary Sea Stories Lead-in StoriesHundun and Seven OrificesHundun govered Central Heaven, and he treated Shu (Emperor of the Southern Sea) and Hu (Emperor of the Northern Sea) kindly. They decided to fix Hundun with one orifice a day, and seven days later, Hundun fell and died. What do you make of the cause of Hundun’s death? Lead-in StoriesFacts of Gaia (Gaea) SECTION 1 Chinese Stories of Ocean OriginThe Story of PanguYinYangPangu couldn’t bear the stuffy egg and splited it into two halves. He used his arms to keep yin and yang separate from each other. In the end, his body parts made up the whole world. Chinese Stories of Ocean OriginThe Story of NüwaGonggong bashed his head against Buzhou mountain—one of the four pillars holding up the heavens. In order to save her children, Nüwa melted stones of the five colours to repair the heavens. After she was done, she was so tired that she laid to down to rest and died from exhaustion.Nüwa is a popular Chinese goddess associated with fertility and marriage. The Story of GuixuGuixu was an endless abyss where five mountains sit, namely Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fanghu, Yingzhou, and Penglai. Fifteen giant tortoises were sent to carry these sacred mountain. However, people from Longbo killed tortoises in Daiyu and Yuanqiao, thus making these two mountains drifted far away with the waves and sank into the sea. From then on, only Fanghu, Yingzhou, and Penglai were left in Guixu. Chinese Stories of Ocean Origin Western Stories of Ocean OriginPontusPontus was the primordial god of the sea. He was the sea itself, not merely its resident deity, who was born from?Chaos?alongside?Tartarus,?Gaea,?Uranus,?Nyx, and many other primordial gods. Pontus is seen as the embodiment of the sea rather than a god who lives in the realm of the sea. Western Stories of Ocean OriginNjordNjord is the god of the sea, wind, wealth, and fertility. Nj