萨岁(sax sis),这位侗族人民至高无上的祖母神,究竟是一位怎么样的神祗?是天神,还是地祗?多年来关于“萨岁的研究”,学术上大体有五说:“日神说”、“蜘蛛神说”、“杏妮神”、“洗夫人说”、“仰香化神说”等。笔者经多方比较研究认为:萨岁既不是日神、蜘蛛神,也不是杏妮神,更不是反映阶级社会的英雄神化——仰香化神和洗夫人,而是更原始、更古老的女蜗神的侗族称法,或说是侗族化的女娲神。本文试就此问题作些探讨。 Sax sis, the supreme grandmother of the Dong people, what kind of deity is it, a god or a land? Over the years, there have been five academic studies on the study of Saensun: “God said”, “Spider God said,” “Apricot god”, “said Mrs. wash”, “Yang Shenghua God said” and so on. According to the comparative study of many parties, Sara is neither a god nor a spider god, nor an apotheosis, nor is it a reflection of the deification of heroes in class society - Yang Shenghua and her husband, but a more primitive and older woman Moxibustion of the Dong ethnicity, or that of Dong nationality goddess. This article tries to make some discussion on this issue.