Cultural studies of the East Asian civilization in the dawn: On the dating of the creation mythology period in East Asia

Abstract

Based on a study of mythological literatures in China, Korea and Japan, this paper is intended to set up the coordinate axis which can estimate the time period of the Creation Mythology and therefore fix the period of the Myth of Origin in the Creation Mythology group in the three countries, and set up a time-platform suitable for East Asian mythology studies.

Keywords

three East Asian countries / Creation Mythology / Myth of Origin / time-platform