File:Flower contest myth.png
Original file (873 × 643 pixels, file size: 120 KB, MIME type: image/png)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionFlower contest myth.png |
English: This map portrays the locations of all known instances of the flower contest myth, in which an usurper deity (usually the historical Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism, who in this myth is described as responsible for human suffering) cheats in a flower-growing contest and thus spreads evil into the island/country/world. The original source of the myth is unknown, but it is attested throughout the Ryukyus, the Korean Peninsula, and Buryatia, as well as among two major Mongol groups (Khalkha and Ordos) and among Han Chinese communities in Gansu and Shanxi. The oldest attestation of the myth is from 1616, in a treatise associated with a Shanxi-centered Chinese mystery religion. By the eighteenth century it was already found among the Buryats.
The Korean dots are from Kim Heonsun's Hanguk-ui Changse Sinhwa, 1994. The Ryukyuan, Mongol, and Buryat dots are from Manabu Waida's "The Flower Contest between Two Divine Rivals," 1991. The Chinese dots are from Lee Pyungrae's "Monggol changse sinhwa-ui kot-piugi gyeongjaeng iyagi-e daehan jonghap-jeok gochal," 2012. Some dots in Korea and the Ryukyus represent multiple different locations. The source map is from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/East_Asia_area_blank_CJK.svg Red: The gods involved are/are named after the Buddhas Maitreya and Shakyamuni. For all instances except the Ordos Mongols (red dot south of China-Mongolia border), Shakyamuni is the cheater. Among the Ordos Mongols, the Maitreya Buddha is the cheater, but this makes little sense and per Lee 2012 may be a misunderstanding by the Russian transcriber. Orange: The gods involved are other Buddhist/Chinese figures. Among the Khalkha Mongols, the contest is between the good Vajrapani Boddhisattva and a minor Buddhist figure. Near Seoul (in a folktale, not a myth), the contest is between personifications of Confucianism and Buddhism, with Buddhism being the cheater. Blue: The gods involved are indigenous. Green: Potentially related myths among the Altai Tatars (Turkic) and trans-Baikal Tungus. The former have a myth about stealing a part of a flower, while the latter have a myth about a tree-growing contest without cheating involved. |
Date | |
Source | Own work |
Author | Karaeng Matoaya |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 02:39, 29 June 2020 | 873 × 643 (120 KB) | Karaeng Matoaya (talk | contribs) | Accessible without color | |
16:07, 10 June 2020 | 873 × 643 (118 KB) | Karaeng Matoaya (talk | contribs) | No origin of evil myth in Okinawa | ||
07:53, 10 June 2020 | 873 × 643 (129 KB) | Karaeng Matoaya (talk | contribs) | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Horizontal resolution | 47.2 dpc |
---|---|
Vertical resolution | 47.2 dpc |