著者

井本 英一

出版者

桃山学院大学

雑誌

桃山学院大学人間科学 (ISSN:09170227)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.1-29, 1999-01-30

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Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, gave a miraculous pot to Tatsukichiro Horikawa, Japanese nobleman, when he departed from China for Japan after the completion of the revolution. When one rubbes the handles of the pot with water in up to 70 per cent height, a large quantity of mist gushes forth. The pot is kind of the cornu copia which supplies inexhausted food and drink. This kind of pot was considered not as a pot of this world but as that of the world beyond. Loaves and fish of Jesus (Matt. 14. 13-21) were cooked in this pot. The large bronze 'sea' in front of Solomon's temple and the Holy Grail of King Arthur were of the same origin. A miraculous pot belonged to the god of the underwater or the underground world so it was laid out at the entrance of the cave tomb. Ancient blacksmiths needed carbon in melting metals. They sacrificed a human being and put it into the melting pot. The story of the miraculous pot is often connected with the body or the head of the victim. The kingship was represented by the miraculous pot. When the kingship was lost the pot sinked to the depth of the water and was guarded by a dragon god, and anyone who got it out of the water became a new king.