A boy of three or four years old ran in the wilderness. Hunters drove the wolf away and brought the boy back. I don't know why he was born, so he was named "Shah Lu". With his eloquence, Sha Luneng understands all kinds of animal languages; He Zhuang enlisted in the army and fought with Genghis Khan. During a camping trip, Shahrukh heard the wolf howling and told the leader that there was a flood and he had to camp elsewhere. Sure enough, it was stormy at night, and the original camp was flooded. From then on, whenever camping at night, the leader asked Shahrukh to know good or bad. From the above historical records and folk legends of wolf children, it is obvious that Mongols have the concept of wolf totem worship.
Deer are submissive and good at running, beautiful and endowed with divine power, and the ancient people naturally adore them, which is recorded in history books. Mongolian shamans believe that deer can manifest spirits and exorcise evil spirits. The hats worn by shaman wizards (Bo) in Bahu, Chahar, Horqin and other areas in Inner Mongolia are decorated with antlers made of iron, and the bronze mirrors and drums used also depict the image of deer, indicating that Mongolian ancestors, especially forest hunters, used deer as totem gods. Therefore, the totem myth of "Cang Lang White Deer", a pair of Mongolian ancestors who once had great cohesion, is recorded in the Secret History of Mongolia and is precious. From the development of totem system, the oldest totem is the "original ecology totem", and each clan has only one totem, and it is a real thing that exists in their surrounding environment, such as totem entities such as wolves and deer. "With the development of two kinds of production (material production and people's own reproduction), conflicts, alliances, contacts, marriages and hybrids are bound to occur between clans. ..... The consanguineous family was greatly impacted and eventually collapsed. Marriage outside the family led to a change in totem worship, and' quasi-original totem' came into being. " The quasi-original totem is actually a transition from a single totem to a confrontation between matriarchal totem and paternal totem. At first, the latter did not occupy an important position, and when people paid more attention to paternal totem, they entered the late primitive society, that is, the patriarchal clan commune period. "Cang Lang White Deer" appeared in the form of husband and wife, which shows that it is a totem form existing in the patriarchal clan commune period of Mongolian society.
2. Bear totem worship
According to legend, there is a story: "A woman met a bear and gradually became familiar with it. Later, this woman gave birth to several children similar to the bear, and after raising the children, she returned to the bear. Leave a message before leaving:' Don't kill the bear for three years, that would be tantamount to killing me'. But the children still disobeyed their mother's warning and killed a bear in the third year. When the bear's abdomen was cut open, they saw the woman's breasts inside. "
3. Totem worship of Mangniu
Totem worship of Mangniu is also the belief of Buryat Mongols. The History of Buryatia in Mongolia, still written by Lombok, records the myths and legends about the ancient history of Buryatia. According to legend, "Yidugan" (a witch) born in Buryatia and named "Ashugan" was roaming in Lake Baikal when she saw a wild cow howling at the mouth of the lake with foam. I thought, "This is not my ordinary chance, but a godsend," so I made love to Mangniu. Soon, Yidugan gave birth to two boys, the elder brother named Briatai and the younger brother named Hao Ritai. While hunting in the jungle at the top of the mountain, Mrs. Briato met a woman as his wife and gave birth to two boys. My brother's name was Yi Hei Rizhi and my brother's name was Paula Gatt. The descendants of Yiheirit and Boragat always say: "Father of Mangniu Na (King), Mother of Hatun (Later Age) in the bush" in Hanshan jungle, and spread the ritual of offering fresh milk to God for blessing, which is still practiced among some tribes living in Lake Baikal. The myth and legend of the worship of a bull (the son of heaven worships the bull's face) also describes the origin of the bull's face, Yi Heirite and Bao Lakete. Legend has it that the forehead of Mangniu was the son of heaven, but he made eyes at the princess of Taiji and Khan and got pregnant while walking in a seemingly busy cow covered with Mangniu hide. Later, the two boys who were pregnant with his eyes became the ancestors of Paula Gat and Ehrit.
4. Swan Totem Worship
According to legend, Holitumut is a single young man who has not yet got married. One day, when he was roaming around Lake Baikal, he saw nine swans coming from the northeast, took off their feathers and turned into nine fairies. He stole a swan's feathers and hid. After the bath, eight swans flew away in feather clothes, leaving one as his wife. After giving birth to the eleventh son, the wife wanted to go back to her hometown and asked her husband to return his clothes, but he refused. One day, while his wife was doing needlework, Holitumut was cooking and cooking with a "gripper" (that is, two pieces of felt to prevent burning hands). The wife said, "Please give me the goose coat. I'll try it on. I'm going in and out through the gate. You'll catch me easily. Let me try!" Horitumo thought, "What will happen to him if he wears it?" So he took the white goose coat out of the box and gave it to his wife. The wife put on the goose coat and immediately turned into a swan, stretching her wings in the room. Suddenly, she spread her wings and flew out from the skylight. "Oh, you can't go, don't go!" The husband shouted in surprise and grabbed the swan's calf in a hurry, but at last the swan flew into the sky. Holitumut said, "You can go if you want, but don't go until you name your eleven sons!" Therefore, the wife named the eleven sons xubud, GalJud, xowaCai, Qalbin, Batunai, xodai, xusid, caYan and saraid. Say that finish, then fly to the northeast.
5. Totem worship of eagle
The traditional saying of shaman is that "the eagle is the messenger of the divine bird of heaven. It was ordered to descend to earth and marry the tribal leader, and gave birth to a beautiful girl. The eagle taught her the magical skills of channeling with the heaven and the gods, and wove the girl with her own feathers into a magical dress, and put a crown made of feathers on her head, so that she was invited to visit the heaven and cultivated her into a great world. The earliest incarnation of the male shaman is also related to the eagle. The Collected Works of Garoff, the former Soviet Union, recorded such a legend: "At the beginning of the world, there was no illness or death on earth. After a while, evil spirits shed disease and death on the world, and people began to suffer. At this time, the gods sent eagles from heaven to help the world. However, this specially sent eagle finally fell to the ground, and people on the ground couldn't understand it, and they couldn't figure out why it came to earth. As a last resort, the eagle flew at the feet of the gods and returned to the sky. Therefore, the gods ordered the eagle to say: teach the shaman's skills to the first people you meet after you get to the ground. In this way, the eagle came to the world again and saw a woman sleeping under a tree at a glance. The eagle intersected with this woman and made her pregnant. At this time, this woman is in a period of temporary separation from her husband, and when she returns to her husband, she gives birth to a boy at full term, which is the earliest shaman in the world.
6. Totem worship of trees
Legend has it that in ancient times, there were two families named Amine and Tumen, who lived and multiplied in the deep forests. One of their descendants is an expert hunter. One day, the hunter found a big tree in the forest with a tumor in the middle and a baby lying in the hole (hollow). At the upper end of the tree tumor, there is a branch shaped like a leaky pipe, and its tip is just inserted into the baby's mouth. The sap of the tree enters the body along the leaky pipe through the baby's mouth and becomes his food. There is a owl in the tree carefully guarded. The hunter took the baby back and raised it, calling it the nephew of God (Tengger), whose mother is the tree baby and whose father is the owl. "When a baby is promoted as a leader as an adult, his descendants will multiply into the Churos tribe." Those who "pull Ross" leak the meaning of feeding people with branches. There is also a saying that people who adopt babies and their descendants are called "Junggar" department.