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*''Okinawan/Yaeyama'': 御嶽 ''(utaki / on)''

*''Okinawan/Yaeyama'': 御嶽 ''(utaki / on)''

''Utaki'' are sacred spaces in the indigenous animistic [[Ryukyuan religion]], the sites of religious rituals performed by priestesses known as ''[[noro]]'' or ''tsukasa'', as well as more private, individual worship. Often consisting of groves of trees sometimes surrounded with stone walls but with minimal manmade elements otherwise, ''utaki'' were frequently maintained within the inner sections of Okinawan ''[[gusuku]]'' fortresses. They are one of several types of sites known as ''uganju'' 拝所 ("places of worship"), along with sacred springs (''kaa''), household altars, and small roadside altars.<ref name=aike2>Aike Rots, "Strangers in the Sacred Grove: The Changing Meanings of Okinawan Utaki," ''Religions'' 10:298 (2019), 2.</ref>

''Utaki'' are sacred spaces in the indigenous animistic [[Ryukyuan religion]], the sites of religious rituals performed by priestesses known as ''[[noro]]'' or ''tsukasa'', as well as more private, individual worship. Often consisting of groves of trees sometimes surrounded with stone walls but with minimal manmade elements otherwise, ''utaki'' were frequently maintained within the inner sections of Okinawan ''[[gusuku]]'' fortresses. They are one of several types of sites known as ''uganju'' 拝所 ("places of worship"), along with sacred springs (''kaa''), household altars, and small roadside altars.<ref name=aike2>Aike Rots, "Strangers in the Sacred Grove: The Changing Meanings of Okinawan Utaki," ''Religions'' 10:298 (2019), 2.</ref> Unlike [[Shinto shrines]], which are typically controlled by a priestly family and which are organized nationally by the Association of Shinto Shrines (''[[Jinja Honcho|Jinja Honchô]]''), ''utaki'' are generally not owned or controlled by any religious authority; ''noro'', ''yuta'', indigenous activists, tour guides, governments, and powerspot tourists each make of the site what they will, (re)defining and using the site according to their own beliefs.<ref>Rots, 12.</ref>

''Utaki'' are known as ''on'' in the [[Yaeyama language]].

''Utaki'' are known as ''on'' in the [[Yaeyama language]].