This past Friday (24th) marked the twelfth week of the semester this 2009 Spring so we went on a little excursion instead of our lectures in ministry class to the Ginowan spring. Where it is said that the lady of Ginowan who was a daughter of the gods and could fly because of her magical clothes, took a bath while an Okinawan recognized her stole and hid her clothes then told her that she would not get her clothes back unless she married him. So the lady marries him and they have two sons. But she eventually finds the clothes that the man stole and flies away. The two sons inevitably are left and are said to have been the two kings of Okinawa. Thus Okinawans have seen themselves as descendants from the gods and as you notice many other island cultures believe that they have descended from the gods as well.
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