八重山川平におけるお嶽をめぐる儀礼と祭祀組織
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概要
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the ritual system of Kabira village, Yaeyama, Ryukyu islands, with refrence to religious concepts, especially to the worldview of the villagers. There are five sanctuaries Ong, each of which has its own name: Kifa Ong, Ara-Oleg, Yama-Ong, Yubusi-Ong, and Sukuji-Ong. Excepting Sukuji-Ong, they have their own cult groups ibi-ninju, to which village members ought to belong respectively. The affiliation to a cult group tends to be decided along with the male-line. Some female members of ibi-ninju are especially called tinarabi, whose title is usually bestowed particular women through ancestor's oracle. Generally, every tinarabi may actually perceive this oracle in an unexpected unusualness such as sickness and extraordinal appetite for some kinds of food. Thus, female membership of a cult group is able to transmit from natal group to the other, and yet married women's membership of her cult group may often be different from her husband's. Tinarabi performs the role of assistant to priestess tsikasa who has the highest position at the ritual in the sanctuary. The succesion of tsikasa is based on a family-line (usually through male line) of Kam-mutu (literally, origin-house of Deity), which is authorized by an oral tradition about the foundation of Ong. There are some types in the way of succession of tsikasa as below: 1) From aunt (father's sister) to niece (brother's daughter) 2) From mother to daughter 3) Choosing from some candidates by lot. In Kabira, there is another type of cult group, called tuni-ninju, which consists of ten or more families who form a ritual corporate group centered on tuni-mutu.
- 日本文化人類学会の論文
- 1969-06-30