盤瓠信仰是盤瓠文化的核心,它起源于遠古時期一種常見的動物圖騰崇拜。在后世的歷史傳承過程中,信仰盤瓠的族群大多會在圖騰原型的基礎上對盤瓠形象進行加工和重塑,本質上是在維護信仰對象即盤瓠的神圣性。在岑家梧兩型盤瓠傳說劃分的背后,后世的盤瓠信仰其實也可以分為兩種類型:一種是由民族圖騰崇拜到族源祖先崇拜,一種是由民族圖騰崇拜到部族英雄崇拜。從其起源和歷史發展過程來看,作為原生性宗教的盤瓠信仰是在后來才逐步演變成為多個族群共有的一種傳統民間信仰。

The faith of Panhu originated from a kind of common animal totem worship in ancient times is the core of Panhu culture.Ethnic groups of following Panhu faith would usually process and reshape the image of Panhu on the basis of the prototype totem in the course of history for preserving the sanctity of Panhu.Behind Cen Jiawu’s division with two types of Panhu legend,there are also two types of Panhu beliefs:the worship of ethnogenic ancestors from ethnic totem and the worship of tribal heroes from ethnic totem.By analyzing its origin and historical development process,we found that the faith of Panhu as a primitive religion had gradually evolved into to a traditional folk belief some ethnic groups followed jointly.