In the traditional society of human communities, to continue venerating a certain animal or plant with the concept of being the source of the history of the ethnic group, called the worship of totem. The article introduces and analyzes some views of researchers on totem worship
the expression and behavior of the general community for totem and social significance of this belief. Going into a specific case, the article discusses totem worship in the Thai ethnic group in Vietnam - one of the ethnic groups who still maintains a rather rich spiritual life.