粵東原鄉「三山國王」神祇的性質

Abstract

Triplex Mountain King Worship Cult, in so far as the Religiosity Movement is concerned as regards its deification process, originated from three mystic peaks situated in Dieux-Joux County of Kwang Tung, its mystic attributes came forth from the religious environemental perception setting in the locality, then, bit by bit, through a humanitarian, civilizational transmute-tion process, the object-as-form-of-beauty changed into an object-of-morality, and eventually through a substantive conversion process, into a Homeland Guardian Deity. It has further, grad-ually gained weight up from once a regional, provincial deity level, into sort of a national consecration cult, in other words a nationwide homeland Guardian Deity, from then on its spell has by far exceeded its original setting that was provincially East Kwang tung, it has indeed since become a national consecratory cult.B asically, the formative process of the Triplex Mountion King Worship Cult can be regarded as a form of religious projection of man-Land relationship that is so characteristically traditionally chinese. Beginning from the Deity Mounatian, it gained heavenly ordination to become sort of Godly Human being, the incarnation in a sense, what with the buildup of a mortal-cum-deceased, but immortal soul cult developed over the years by-gone, it become a Homeland Guardian Deity highly revered and acknowledged by the country folks. In fact and indeed each element and junture in the evolutive process has come about as a result of the compromise to a highly refined level, between the underlying natural setting and the meta-physic human activities having taken place thereon, exhibited in largely religious forms. To put it another way, each phase in the evolution of the Triplex King Cult, has come largely as a result of people's innate quest from the existing world, civilian and natural surroundings inclu-sive, for the godly feat of protection under the Treplex Mountain king, the civilisational element