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Island of Gods 2
🕑 Added 2023-08-21 12:59:02 +0000 UTC...And this is what a young priestess,' accompanied by her assistant, ritual to hear the voices of gods might have looked like as her male vassals look on. These pics are not from Okinawa but are actually from Yoshinogari archeological sites in northern Kyushu, circa 2nd to 3rd centuries, and are recreations of what life may have looked like in one of Japan's ancient fortified domains. Historically, these shamanic kingdoms led by female spiritual leaders eventually gave way to the hierarchical societies run by men, but as we know their forms have somewhat persisted on the outer remote islands of the archipelago (including Miyako) to this day.
Oh and is it a coincidence that these old matrilineal societies had people whose physical features were a bit different - more beautiful, subjectively put - from the mainstream and that their present-day descendants in Ryukyu islands have given us a disproportionate number of actresses and supermodels? Well, again, who knows:-)
(Photos by Aster)
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Didrik Svahn
So one could say that she is part of the inspiration for Saki then? ;) Also I think that it’s so great that they become models and actress. As that show even in the modern day the descendants get to be in influence female rolls. Similar to how their ancestors who where the female priestesses ^^
savaster
https://okinawameguri.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/7d3542ba0a62f2d976beb8634bb17d26.png Yeah there are loads of beautiful people coming out of Okinawa and Tina Tamashiro (model and actress) is an example, as her dad is American and her mother is native Okinawan she is sort of real Saki :-)
Didrik Svahn
Once again really interesting about the culture of these remote islands. Especially how islands like Miyako still have some form of that old female priestesses tradition. But even more so how the descendant today are super models and idols :D
