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Rh sister, and next Tsuma -tsu-hime no Mikoto. All these three Deities also dispersed well the seeds of trees, and forthwith crossed over to the Land of Kiï.

Thereafter Sosa no wo no Mikoto dwelt on the Peak of Kuma-nari, and eventually entered the Nether Land."

In one writing it is said:—"Oho-kuni-nushi no Kami is also called Oho-mono-nushi no Kami, or else Kuni-dzukuri Oho-na-mocha no Mikoto, or again Ashi-hara no Shiko-wo, or Ya-chi-hoko no Kami, or Oho-kuni-dama no Kami, or Utsushi-kuni-dama no Kami. His children were in all one hundred and eighty-one Deities.

Now Oho-na-mochi no Mikoto and Sukuna-bikona no Mikoto, with united strength and one heart, constructed this sub-celestial world. Then, for the sake of the visible race of man as well as for beasts, they determined the method of healing diseases. They also, in order to do away with the calamities of birds, beasts, and creeping things, established means for their prevention and control.