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Ryukyuan religion, the Glossary

The Ryukyuan religion (琉球信仰), Ryūkyū Shintō (琉球神道), Nirai Kanai Shinkō (ニライカナイ信仰), or Utaki Shinkō (御嶽信仰) is the indigenous belief system of the Ryukyu Islands.^[1]

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East Asian religions
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Religion in the Ryukyu Islands
Ryukyuan culture
Shamanism in Japan

Aji (Ryukyu)

Aji An aji, anji, or azu was a ruler of a petty kingdom in the history of the Ryukyu Islands.

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Akaname

The is a Japanese yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, with its precursor or equivalent documented earlier in 1686.

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, or, is the creation goddess of the Ryukyu Islands in the Ryukyuan religion. Ryukyuan religion and Amamikyu are ethnic religions, religion in the Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyuan culture and Shamanism in Japan.

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Amulet

An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor.

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Anito

Anito, also spelled anitu, refers to ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities in the Indigenous Philippine folk religions from the precolonial age to the present, although the term itself may have other meanings and associations depending on the Filipino ethnic group.

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Banyan

A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely.

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Battle of Okinawa

The, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Carapace

A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chūzan Seikan

, compiled in 1650 by Shō Shōken, is the first official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom.

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Cheuksin

Cheuksin is the toilet goddess of Korean mythology.

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Chinen Castle

is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa.

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Chinese calendar

The traditional Chinese calendar (l; informally l) is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. Ryukyuan religion and Chinese folk religion are east Asian religions.

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Chinese Manichaeism

Chinese Manichaeism, also known as Monijiao (Moni) or Mingjiao (l), is the form of Manichaeism transmitted to and currently practiced in China.

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Chinese ritual mastery traditions

Chinese ritual mastery traditions, also referred to as ritual teachings (sometimes rendered as "Faism"), Folk Taoism, or Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large group of Chinese orders of ritual officers who operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside the institutions of official Taoism. Ryukyuan religion and Chinese ritual mastery traditions are east Asian religions.

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Chinese zodiac

The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Chthonic

The word chthonic, or chthonian, is derived from the Ancient Greek word χθών, "khthon", meaning earth or soil.

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Conch

Conch is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life. Ryukyuan religion and Confucianism are east Asian religions.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Dragon King

The Dragon King, also known as the Dragon God, is a Chinese water and weather god.

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Faith healing

Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice.

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Folk religion

In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.

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Fortune-telling

Fortune telling is the unproven spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life.

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Fulu

() are Taoist magic symbols and incantations, translatable into English as 'talismanic script', which are written or painted on talismans called by Taoist practitioners.

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Genius loci

In classical Roman religion, a genius loci (genii locorum) was the protective spirit of a place.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.

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Giant clam

Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the most well-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks.

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Gusuku

often refers to castles or fortresses in the Ryukyu Islands that feature stone walls.

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The is an UNESCO World Heritage Site which consists of nine sites all located in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Ryukyuan religion and Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu are Ryukyuan culture.

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.

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Hematemesis

Hematemesis is the vomiting of blood.

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History of the Ryukyu Islands

This article is about the history of the Ryukyu Islands southwest of the main islands of Japan.

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Household deity

A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members.

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Iejima

, previously romanized in English as Ie Shima, is an island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, lying a few kilometers off the Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa Island.

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Iha Fuyū

is considered the father of Okinawaology and was a Japanese scholar who studied various aspects of Japanese and Okinawan culture, customs, linguistics, and folklore.

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Indigenous Philippine shrines and sacred grounds

Indigenous Philippine shrines and sacred grounds are places regarded as holy within the indigenous Philippine folk religions.

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Initiation

Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.

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Kami

are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion.

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Kamuy

A kamuy (カムィ; kamui) is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy.

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Kamuy-huci

Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, Kamui Fuchi) is the Ainu kamuy (goddess) of the hearth.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Kijimuna

The Kijimuna (Okinawan: キジムナー, kijimunaa, also kijimun 木の精), or Bunagaya, are creatures of the mythology native to the island of Okinawa.

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Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa

is a village located in Nakagami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kokugakuin University

Kokugakuin University, abbreviated as Kokugakudai (國學大) or Kokudai (國大), is a Shinto-affiliated private research university in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

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Magic and religion

Belief in magic exists in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religious hierarchy including formal clergy or more informal systems.

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Mana (Oceanian cultures)

In Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, mana is a supernatural force that permeates the universe.

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Mediation is a negotiation facilitated by a third-party neutral.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Miyako-jima

is the largest and the most populous island among the Miyako Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Miyakoan language

The Miyakoan language (宮古口/ミャークフツ Myākufutsu/Myākufutsї or 島口/スマフツ Sumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Miyako-go) is a diverse dialect cluster spoken in the Miyako Islands, located southwest of Okinawa.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Nakagusuku Castle

is a gusuku in the village of Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan.

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Nakagusuku Hotel ruins

The, also known as the Royal Hotel or, is an abandoned, unfinished hotel in Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa.

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Nakijin Castle

is a Ryukyuan gusuku located in Nakijin, Okinawa.

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Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture

The is one of the largest centers in the world devoted to scholarly research on the interface of philosophy and religions within the East and West.

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Nihon-shiki romanization

Nihon-shiki (lit, romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

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Noro (priestess)

(祝女, sometimes 神女 or 巫女) (nuuru) are priestesses of the Ryukyuan religion at Utaki. Ryukyuan religion and Noro (priestess) are religion in the Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyuan culture and Shamanism in Japan.

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Northern Wei

Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Okinawan language

The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.

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Omega

Omega (-->uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.

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Omoro Sōshi

The is a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa and the Amami Islands, collected into 22 volumes and written primarily in hiragana with some simple kanji.

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Onarigami

is the ancient belief of the Ryūkyūan people that spiritual power is the domain of women. Ryukyuan religion and Onarigami are religion in the Ryukyu Islands and Ryukyuan culture.

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Ox (zodiac)

The Ox (牛) is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and also appears in related calendar systems.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pig toilet

A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole connecting the two.

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Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.

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Precognition

Precognition (from the Latin prae- 'before', and cognitio 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.

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Psychology of self

The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience.

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Psychopomp

Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.

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Racism in Japan

comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Japan, and have been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices and action (including violence) at various times in the history of Japan against racial or ethnic groups.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.

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Ryukyu Kingdom

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879.

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Ryukyuan people

The Ryukyuan people (Ruuchuu minzuku or label, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Okinawans, Uchinaanchu, Lewchewan or Loochooan) are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Sefa-utaki

, meaning "purified place of Utaki," is a historical sacred space, overlooking Kudaka Island, that served as one of the key locations of worship in the native religion of the Ryukyuan people for millennia.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Shō Shin

was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the third ruler of the second Shō dynasty.

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Shen (Chinese religion)

Shen is a Chinese word with senses of deity, god or spirit.

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Shigandang

Shigandang (石敢當|ishigantō|) is an ornamental stone tablet with writing, which is used to exorcise evil spirits in east Asia.

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Shinto

Shinto is a religion originating in Japan. Ryukyuan religion and Shinto are east Asian religions.

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Shisa

is a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology.

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Shuri, Okinawa

is a district of the city of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.

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Soul

In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.

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Sprite (folklore)

A sprite is a supernatural entity in European mythology.

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Taboo

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.

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Tamagusuku Castle

is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa.

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Tamaudun

is one of the three royal mausoleums of the Ryukyu Kingdom, along with Urasoe yōdore at Urasoe Castle and Izena Tamaudun near Izena Castle in Izena, Okinawa.

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Taoism

Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality. Ryukyuan religion and Taoism are east Asian religions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_religion

Also known as Hinukan, Lewchewan religion, Mabui, Nirai Kanai, Nirai-Kanai, Okinawan mythology, Okinawan religion, Ryukyuan Shinto, Ryukyuan mythology, Ryūkyūan religion.

, Magic and religion, Mana (Oceanian cultures), Mediation, Mediumship, Miyako-jima, Miyakoan language, Myth, Nakagusuku Castle, Nakagusuku Hotel ruins, Nakijin Castle, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nihon-shiki romanization, Noro (priestess), Northern Wei, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawan language, Omega, Omoro Sōshi, Onarigami, Ox (zodiac), Oxford University Press, Pacific Ocean, Pig toilet, Prayer, Precognition, Psychology of self, Psychopomp, Racism in Japan, Religion, Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan people, Salt, Sefa-utaki, Shamanism, Shō Shin, Shen (Chinese religion), Shigandang, Shinto, Shisa, Shuri, Okinawa, Soul, Sprite (folklore), Taboo, Tamagusuku Castle, Tamaudun, Taoism, Tiger (zodiac), Toilet god, Tradition, Troll doll, Utaki, Uterus, Veneration of the dead, White Lotus, World War II, Yaeyama Islands, Yōsei, Yomitan, Yonaguni language.

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See also

East Asian religions

Ethnic religions

Religion in the Ryukyu Islands

Ryukyuan culture

Shamanism in Japan

References