Shô Shin also effected significant changes to the organization of the native ''[[noro]]'' (high priestesses) cult and its relationship to the government. He owed his uncle's abdication, and his own succession to his sister, the ''noro'' of the royal family, a special position known as the ''[[kikoe-ogimi|kikoe-ôgimi]]''. He established a new residence for the ''kikoe-ôgimi'' just outside the gates to the castle, and erected high walls in 1519 around the [[Sonohyan Utaki]], the sacred space and accompanying sacred hearth which she tended. A system by which the king and ''kikoe-ôgimi'' appointed local ''noro'' across the kingdom was established, tying this element of the native Ryukyuan religion into formal systems of authority under the government<ref>Kerr. p111.</ref>. | Shô Shin also effected significant changes to the organization of the native ''[[noro]]'' (high priestesses) cult and its relationship to the government. He owed his uncle's abdication, and his own succession to his sister, the ''noro'' of the royal family, a special position known as the ''[[kikoe-ogimi|kikoe-ôgimi]]''. He established a new residence for the ''kikoe-ôgimi'' just outside the gates to the castle, and erected high walls in 1519 around the [[Sonohyan Utaki]], the sacred space and accompanying sacred hearth which she tended. A system by which the king and ''kikoe-ôgimi'' appointed local ''noro'' across the kingdom was established, tying this element of the native Ryukyuan religion into formal systems of authority under the government<ref>Kerr. p111.</ref>. |