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[[File:Noro.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A museum display recreating a traditional ''noro'' ritual. Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]

[[File:Noro.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A museum display recreating a traditional ''noro'' ritual. Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]

*''Japanese/Okinawan'': ノロ ''(noro, nuru)''

*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 神女, ノロ ''(noro, nuru)''

''Noro'' were [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] village priestesses, who performed a variety of rituals and ceremonies for the people of the area, as well as watching over local ''[[utaki]]''. Most ''[[magiri]]'' had several ''noro''.<ref name=furusato>Plaques at reproduction of a noro's house, Okinawa Furusato Mura, Ocean Expo Park, Nakijin.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15456827940/sizes/h/]</ref> Though there is some overlap or conflation today between individuals identifying themselves as ''noro'', ''[[yuta]]'' (spirit mediums), ''kaminchu'' (person of the spirits), or by other terms, ''noro'' historically were officially appointed and belonged to a set hierarchy.<ref>Aike Rots, "Strangers in the Sacred Grove: The Changing Meanings of Okinawan Utaki," ''Religions'' 10:298 (2019), 7.</ref>

''Noro'' were [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] village priestesses, who performed a variety of rituals and ceremonies for the people of the area, as well as watching over local ''[[utaki]]''. Most ''[[magiri]]'' had several ''noro''.<ref name=furusato>Plaques at reproduction of a noro's house, Okinawa Furusato Mura, Ocean Expo Park, Nakijin.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15456827940/sizes/h/]</ref> Though there is some overlap or conflation today between individuals identifying themselves as ''noro'', ''[[yuta]]'' (spirit mediums), ''kaminchu'' (person of the spirits), or by other terms, ''noro'' historically were officially appointed and belonged to a set hierarchy.<ref>Aike Rots, "Strangers in the Sacred Grove: The Changing Meanings of Okinawan Utaki," ''Religions'' 10:298 (2019), 7.</ref>