Utaki

Utaki (御嶽) is an Okinawan term for a sacred place, often a grove, cave, or mountain.

Utaki are usually located on the outskirts of villages and are places for the veneration of gods and ancestors.

One reasonable explanation is that they were created by the indigenous people from the Jōmon period.

[citation needed] Another, racialist theory was they were created from scratch by the Yamato people, which lead in the 1930s and 1940s to re-consecration and building new Shinto temples on the islands.

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