Kaga Baba

Japanese: 加賀馬場 - かがばんば

…It is located in Tsurugi-machi, Ishikawa-gun, Ishikawa Prefecture. Its predecessor was Kaga Bamba, one of the routes to the sacred mountain Hakusan that was established at the latest by the beginning of the 9th century. Currently, according to the shrine's tradition, it enshrines three deities: Kukurihime, Izanagi, and Izanami, but the original chief deity was Hakusan Hime (the theory that it was Kukurihime has been the mainstream since the Kamakura period), and Hakusan is considered the sacred mountain. …

From Mt. Hakusan

…In the basins of three great rivers, the Tedori River in Kaga, the Kuzuryu River in Echizen, and the Nagara River in Mino, which all have their source in Mt. Hakusan, a belief in the seat of the White Gods as an agricultural deity was born. By the 9th century at the latest, Kaga Bamba, Echizen Bamba, and Mino Bamba had been formed as the centers of worship of Mt. Hakusan in each of the great river basins (Hakusan no Ki). All three of these Bamba are the starting points of different routes to worship Mt. Hakusan, called the Hakusan Hondo (also called the Zenjodo). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kaga Baba" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…石川県石川郡鶴来町に鎮座。おそくとも9世紀初頭までには成立していた霊峰白山（はくさん）への登拝路の一つである加賀馬場（ばんば）を前身とする。現在は社伝により菊理媛（くくりひめ）神，伊邪那岐（いざなき）神，伊邪那美（いざなみ）神の3座をまつるが，本来の主神は白山比咩神(鎌倉時代以後菊理媛神説が中心)で白山を神体山とする。…

【白山】より

…白山を水源地とする加賀の手取川，越前の九頭竜川，美濃の長良川の三つの大河の流域に，白き神々の座を農耕神と仰ぐ信仰が生まれた。おそくとも9世紀ごろまでに，それぞれの大河流域の白山信仰の中心として加賀馬場（ばんば），越前馬場，美濃馬場が形成された(《白山之記》)。この三馬場は，いずれも白山本道（ほんどう）(禅定道（ぜんじようどう）ともいう)と称した白山を登拝する別々の道の起点である。…

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