These are clans that pledged their loyalty to the Imperial Family from long ago, and it is believed that the gods and soshin that those clans worshipped were syncretized, creating a divinity called Amatsuhikone (or, those gods were syncretized with Amatsuhikone). |
これらは古くから天皇家に忠誠を誓った氏族であり、それらの氏族が崇敬していた神や祖神が習合されてアマツヒコネという神格が作られた(あるいはそれらの神々がアマツヒコネに習合された)と見られている。 |