Do Mongolians Really Believe in Wolf Totem

When it comes to the Mongols, what comes to mind for many people is the sight of the Mongolian people galloping across the grasslands on their steeds. And as an ethnic minority with a long history, the Mongols have their own ethnic customs. Many people may mistakenly believe that the Mongolian people have always believed in wolf totem, but in fact, in the eyes of the Mongolian people, the wolf has never been the Mongolian people's totem, and there is no record of the wolf totem in all the literature of the Mongolian people. People have this kind of thinking, just by some movie and TV program misleading. So what do the Mongols believe in? The Mongolian people believe in the deer, the cow, the eagle, and other real things as their totems.

One, the deer as a totem, symbolizing the power of God

deer as a magical animal, has been very gentle. In ancient society, people have a worship of nature, and in the eyes of the ancient people deer is a kind of spiritual animal, can drive away the devil and town evil. So the early herders in Inner Mongolia region will be deer as a totem deity, which is also one of the oldest totems, every clan has. And this are present in their surroundings of the reality of the animal, the Mongolian people as a totem better reflect their reverence for nature.

Two, the cow as a symbol of reproduction

Mongolian cattle totem is also a belief of the Mongolian people, in the view of the Mongolian people encountered the cow, it is to meet the heavenly good fortune. In their eyes, the cow is a symbol of their own reproduction of future generations, the primitive people do not know the origin of the birth of a man and a woman, in their view, reproduction is the totem of the gods into the body of the woman's results, so they are very respectful of this type of totem. Of course, this is just a primitive society's backward thinking, and not what we have to learn now.

Three, the eagle for Teng, a symbol of freedom

Eagle is also a symbol of the ancient gods, according to Mongolian tradition, the eagle is the heavenly bird messenger, which descends on earth, will be able to bring unexpected good results. At the same time, the shaman is also conceived by the divine eagle, so the eagle has also become a symbol of the originator. It has always aspired to freedom and represents the Mongolian people's yearning for freedom.

Different ethnic groups have different ethnic belief totems, and the Mongols, as a long-established ethnic group on the steppe, have always been living and breathing. They take deer, ox and eagle as their totems and have always guarded them. The source of this totem, but also because of the insufficient level of science and technology at that time people can only through the limited level to get a kind of spiritual support.