无论是东山嘴,还是牛河梁,辽宁和内蒙古境内的红山文化遗址都鲜明地表现出了与众不同的史前文化特征,那就是充分印证了神权在社会生活中的重要地位。在人类社会发展的历程中,人对自我和世界的认知不是一蹴而就的,而是经历了漫长的思维过程。出于原始思维,先民们对自然界充满了奇幻瑰丽的想象,并从自身出发去考量自己身边的一切。万物有灵成为原始思维中最重要的思想组成,最终导致了原始宗教的产生。由于传承有序,辽海地域的红山文化遗址忠实地记录了初民们的原始宗教形态的发展历程,它的外在表现就是在各个遗址发现的积石冢,以及与积石 Both Dongshanzui and Niuheliang, Hongshan cultural sites in Liaoning and Inner Mongolia clearly show distinctive features of prehistoric culture, that is, it fully confirms the important status of theocracy in social life. In the course of the development of human society, people’s cognition of themselves and the world does not happen in one action, but goes through a long process of thinking. Out of primitive thinking, the ancestors were full of fantastic magnificent imagination of nature, and from their own considerations to consider everything around them. Wisdom of all things becomes the most important ideological component of primitive thought, which eventually leads to the birth of primitive religion. Due to its orderly inheritance, Hongshan Cultural Relics in the Liao Hai area faithfully recorded the development history of the primitive religions of the early peoples. Its external manifestations were the stone blocks found in various sites and the stone blocks