自然生人神话中具有代表性的主要有7类,分别是水生人、石生人、洞穴生人、蛋生人、竹生人、葫芦生人、树生人。其中5类分别发展为感生神话,唯有洞穴生人与葫芦生人神话没有发展为感生形式。这主要是因为洞穴与葫芦形似母腹,已经包含了女性生殖崇拜的内涵。自然生人神话顺时而变,保持了传承的活力,成为相关仪式传承发展的内驱力,从而形成了特色鲜明、历史悠久的民族文化元素。
There are seven representative categories of myths of nature makes man,namely,waters make man,stones make man,caves make man,eggs make man,baboos make man,gourds make man, trees make man and so on;five of them respectively developed into induced myths except the myths of ca-ves make man and gourds make man.They both did not develop into induced form because the shape of ca-ve and gourd are like that of the womb and they had contained the connotation of the females procreation adoration;The myths of nature makes man changed over time,maintaining the vitality of heritage and be-came a driving force for the inheritance and development of related rituals,thus forming a distinctive na-tional cultural element with long history.