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Yugu, which belongs to the current Okinawa Prefecture in Japan, is entering an era of political and economic stability, starting with the Burak and tribal era, passing through the Gusukushi era, which built castles, and entering the era of the unified kingdom. For about 450 years, the independent kingdom, which had its own culture, was the center of maritime trade in the South Sea and played a bridge role in connecting Southeast and Southwest Asia, and China, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese archipelago, thereby enhancing its external status and maintaining a prosperous period. But internally, they respected traditional culture and maintained a unique form of ancient faith. Therefore, the people who lived on the island were a group connected by delay and blood ties, and the sense of community was also strong. Meanwhile, people and village communities were closely connected, so there was little chance of getting out of town because there was little social exchange with other local villages. The form of marriage also had extremely closed characteristics as marriages within the island centered on cousins and other relatives became habitual. Therefore, most farmers did not live out of the village, and the Shima space each told a conflicting story, and each of them had its own sanctuary and worldview related to the ancestral or supernatural gods. Therefore, in this paper, we would like to examine the origin of the folk religion of the old, focusing on the origin of religion in history and the communion related to the indigenous religion, and to examine the similarities and differences between Korea and other neighboring countries in East Asia.