The Taiwan “Temple of Eighteen Deities” (Traces of Eurasia-Pacific Cult)

Abstract

The article is based on the fieldwork conducted by the author on the north of Taiwan in 2008-2009 in purpose to study the possibility of stable Eurasian mythology symbols existence in the Taiwan “Temple of Eighteen Deities”. In the current article, which is devoted to that broad topic, I limit myself solely on the parallels among the Taiwan temple symbolism and images of Russian folklore. Despite in the whole study there were detected a number of symbols with such parallels – “otherworld”, “dog”, “boat”, “crossing the waters”, “grave”, ‑ because of volume limitations they will be demonstrated only on example of one image, image of “dog”. As the source for the analyses Russian fairy tales from A.N. Afanasyev were chosen.