The Decline of Sun Worship from the Epic Aizuo and Aisha

Abstract

The epic of word of mouth among all nationalities is the accumulation product of people's history and culture, showing people's collective unconscious. And the sun, as a prototype, shows the change of people's unconscious attitude towards the sun in the epic. Azhe is a branch of the Yi nationality, living in the area of the inspection town of Maitreya County, Honghe continent, Yunnan Province. In Azhe's epic Aizuo and Aisa, the decline of sun worship with the changes of the times is clearly reflected in the verse, with the transformation of the sun calendar to the moon calendar and the evolution of the festival to the torch festival.