totem
Totem worship is a kind of animal or plant and other specific objects as the clan with relatives or other special relationship of worship, is the original form of primitive religion, appeared in the late Paleolithic. "Totem" transliteration for the Indian totem, from the North American Arong gold Odbuba dialect ototeman, meaning "his family" or "his clan", the equivalent of the whole tribe mark. Many clans often name it. Totem worship animals can not be killed, only in special occasions to sacrifice to kill it. To the Australian aborigines, for example, they think the soul will leave the body, and stay in the totem (that is, the biological stand) on. In the Greater China region, totems have a variety of animals, such as rats, wolves, dragons, roosters. ...