유구의 전통 신앙과 종교

Abstract

The Ryukyu, which has now become the Okinawa Prefecture in Japan, faces an era of political and economic stability as it enters the era of the unified kingdom, starting with the era of villages and tribes, through the era of Gusuku, which built the castle. For about 450 years, the Unified Kingdom, which had its own culture, was the center of maritime trade in the South Sea and maintained its position as a bridge between Southeast and Southwest Asia, and China, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese Islands. But internally, it respected traditional culture and maintained a unique form of ancient belief. Therefore, people who lived on the island were connected by blood and had a strong sense of community.People and the village society were closely connected and had few opportunities to leave the village because they had little social interaction with other local villages. Marriage forms were also extremely closed as marriages on the island were customary around cousins and relatives. Therefore, most of the peasants rarely lived out of the village. So the island space had a sanctuary and a worldview related to the ancestral gods or the supernatural gods, each telling a conflicting story.In this paper, we will consider the origin of the folk belief of the Ryukyu, focusing on the traditional faith related to the occurrence of religion in history and the indigenous religion, which is characteristic of this Ryukyu culture, and also infer the relation between Dangsan and Seonghwangdang in Korea.