Atagi

Members of a tiny group of highly select and enigmatic Shinto priests, said to
preserve the most deeply ancient wisdom from Japanese prehistory, as embodied
in their ceremonial robes, which are primitively cut to deliberately suggest profound
age. Their arcane rituals open with the members of the priesthood blowing
conch-shell trumpets, the only such example in all Japan. The Atagi philological
resemblance to “Atlantis,” their emphasis on the great antiquity of their cult, and
its unique sea-oriented symbolism bespeak the continuing survival of early
Atlantean religious influences in Japan.