A study of the fountain well and seawater in a "place of prayer"

When reading the origin of the rituals, the mythical spatial structure of the next world and this one start to make sense. Regarding the existence that brings abundance to the community as well as the occasional disaster, Nobuo Orikuchi explained using the concept of "marebito" (= visiting God)．Abundance brought by visiting gods is linked to the authority of the king in power and the "uaraori" enthronement ceremony ritual of the highest goddess of the Ryukyu Kingdom, "Kikoe-no-oogimi" is understood as a ceremonial resurrection associated with agricultural ceremonies. Part of this uaraori pilgrimage is now established as "Agari Umai", featuring the footprints of the creative God Amamikiyo who came from utopia, the Nirai-Kanai. Water plays a key role in accepting God. Mrs. M, the Sherman of Kudakajima, holds that the water in the eastward prayer must have "water and seawater combined". Conventionally, apotheosis toward water or the sea has been pointed out. Even during the harvest festivals of the Yaeyama Island archipelago, "water and seawater" are combined. However, from a conventional perspective, the inevitability of combining "water and seawater" cannot be found. In this article, I cite examples including Uaraori of the Main Island and the Harvest Festival of the Yaeyama Islands and discuss aspects ranging from the relationship between Seisen and seawater to a place of prayer from the perspective of the existence of visiting gods, as a common point of both rituals