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] spear the Deity of Sumisaka at Uda, and with a black-coloured shield and spear the Deity of Ohosaka; likewise to present august offerings of cloth to all the Deities of the august declivities of the hills and to all the Deities of the reaches of the rivers, without neglecting any. In consequence of this the pestilential vapour ceased altogether, and the country was tranquillized.

The reason why this person called Oho-tata-ne-ko was known to be a Deity’s child, was that the above-mentioned Iku-tama-yori-bime was regularly beautiful, whereupon a [divine ] youth [who thought] the majesty of her appearance without comparison in the world, came