Many Awashima-jinja Shrines including Kada Awashima-jinja Shrine support this theory, and consider Sukunabikona no kami and Okuninushi (chief god of Izumo in southern Honshu Island, Japan, and the central character in the important cycle of myths set in that region), who worked together on the nation building of Izumo, to be enshrined deities. 加太淡島神社を始めとする多くの淡島神社がこの説を採っており、祭神を少彦名神、および、ともに出雲の国造りをした大国主としている。 |