Religiös-mythologische Vorstellungen bei den austronesischen Völkern Taiwans

The present dissertation focuses on religious and mythological beliefs, customs and traditions of the Austronesian peoples in Taiwan. The peoples in question have been studied in such various fields as anthropology (including ethnology or ethnography), linguistics, archaeology and so on since the 17th century. Chapter 1 is a brief survey of its research history. Chapter 2 discusses religious notions and practices like supernatural beings, deities and spirits, soul, right and left, and shamanism. Some mythological themes are treated also in this chapter. In chapter 3 “Notions and rituals concerning subsistence economy” is the core of the thesis, which relates religion and mythology of these peoples to subsistence activities of them. As regards hunting: “master of animals,” hunting rituals, religious treatment of bones, and similarity between hunting and headhunting; fishing and livestock keeping; in relation to horticulture: myths of the origin of crops, great rituals, the role of miscanthus and alder, distinction of inner and outer parts of the village, ritual hunting, rain making, ritual plays (swing, top spinning, ball games, stone fights, tug-of-war, running, wrestling, archery and ritual coitus), and headhunting. The 4th chapter describes briefly the rites of passage among the Taiwan aborigines. Finally the appendices include a list of village names in vernacular, Chinese and Japanese languages, and a type index of myths and folktales

Religiös-mythologische Vorstellungen bei den austronesischen Völkern Taiwans

The present dissertation focuses on religious and mythological beliefs, customs and traditions of the Austronesian peoples in Taiwan. The peoples in question have been studied in such various fields as anthropology (including ethnology or ethnography), linguistics, archaeology and so on since the 17th century. Chapter 1 is a brief survey of its research history. Chapter 2 discusses religious notions and practices like supernatural beings, deities and spirits, soul, right and left, and shamanism. Some mythological themes are treated also in this chapter. In chapter 3 “Notions and rituals concerning subsistence economy” is the core of the thesis, which relates religion and mythology of these peoples to subsistence activities of them. As regards hunting: “master of animals,” hunting rituals, religious treatment of bones, and similarity between hunting and headhunting; fishing and livestock keeping; in relation to horticulture: myths of the origin of crops, great rituals, the role of miscanthus and alder, distinction of inner and outer parts of the village, ritual hunting, rain making, ritual plays (swing, top spinning, ball games, stone fights, tug-of-war, running, wrestling, archery and ritual coitus), and headhunting. The 4th chapter describes briefly the rites of passage among the Taiwan aborigines. Finally the appendices include a list of village names in vernacular, Chinese and Japanese languages, and a type index of myths and folktales

Organic Carbon Accumulation in Andosols: (2) Contribution of Aluminum-humus Complexes to Carbon Accumulation in Non-allophanic Andosols

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Biosynthesis of unnatural glycolipids possessing diyne moiety in the acyl chain in the green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum grown by supplementation of 10,12-heptadecadiynic acid

AbstractUnnatural glycolipids possessing the diyne moiety in their acyl groups were successfully biosynthesized in the green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum (Cba.) tepidum by cultivation with supplementation of 10,12-heptadecadiynic acid. Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) and rhamnosylgalactosyldiacylglycerol (RGDG) esterified with one 10,12-heptadecadiynic acid were primarily formed in the cells, and small amounts of glycolipids esterified with the two unnatural fatty acids can also be detected. The relative ratio of these unnatural glycolipids occupied in the total glycolipids was estimated to be 49% based on HPLC analysis using a evaporative light scattering detector. These results indicate that the acyl groups in glycolipids, which play important roles in the formation of extramembranous antenna complexes called chlorosomes, can be modified in vivo by cultivation of green sulfur photosynthetic bacteria with exogenous synthetic fatty acids. Visible absorption and circular dichroism spectra of Cba. tepidum containing the unnatural glycolipids demonstrated the formation of chlorosomes, indicating that the unnatural glycolipids in this study did not interfere with the biogenesis of chlorosomes