“图腾”为印第安语译音,有“亲属”和“标记”的含义。人们把某种动植物或再他事物当作与自己的氏族、部落、民族有某种血缘联系,那么,这种事物就叫做“图腾”。人们把图腾作为神祗对待,并加以神化祭祀,被称为图腾信仰或图腾崇拜。图腾崇拜是原始宗教信仰发展到一定历史阶段的产物,在世界原始民族中都曾普遍盛行。 “Totem” is an Indian transliteration, with the meaning of “kins” and “marks”. People think of certain animals, plants, or other things as having some kind of kinship with their clan, tribe, or nation. Then this kind of thing is called “totem.” People treated the totem as a deity and deified it as a totemism or totem worship. Totem worship is the product of the development of primitive religious beliefs to a certain historical stage, and it has prevailed in the primitive peoples of the world.