A Study of the Prototype of Totem Worship of Ba People
The Ba people were an ancient tribe in ancient China.The areas where the Ba people live contain a large amount of mythological resources,among which the totemic beliefs of the Israeli and Palestinian snakes and the white tiger are the most classic,reflecting the ideological changes of the Ba people in historical development.By using the relevant methods of prototype criticism to study the prototypes and backgrounds of the two totems,we can analyze the importance of the natural environment and human ecology in the production of belief culture,and also discover the long history of multi-ethnic communication deeply embedded in culture.