Legend of Mt. Miwa

Japanese: 三輪山伝説 - みわやまでんせつ

A divine marriage tale about the god of Mt. Miwa. There was a man who visited Ikutamayorihime every night. To find out his true identity, a needle threaded with a spool of thread was quietly attached to the man's clothes, and the next morning the thread had slipped out through the keyhole. Following the trail, they arrived at a shrine on Mt. Miwa, and found out that the man was a god. As three spools of thread remained on the spool, the place was named Miwa. The Kojiki tells us that the child born became Otataneko, the ancestor of the Miwa clan, and worshiped Omononushi, the god of Mt. Miwa. This tale is based on clan tradition and is the origin of the place name Miwa. In the section on Emperor Sujin in the Nihon Shoki, the god who visited Yamatotototobimomosohime-no-mikoto reveals his true identity as a snake.
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Japanese:

三輪山の神をめぐる神婚説話。活玉依姫(いくたまよりひめ)に，夜ごとに通う男がいた。その正体をつきとめるため，糸巻の糸を通した針をそっと男の衣に付けておくと，翌朝糸は鍵穴から抜け出ていた。辿っていくと〈美和山〉の社に着き，正体は神とわかる。糸巻に糸が３勾(みわ)（３巻）残っていたことから，その地を三輪と名づけた。生まれた子は三輪氏の祖〈大田田根子(おおたたねこ)〉となり，三輪山の神，大物主神を斎き祭ったと《古事記》は伝える。氏族伝承を三輪の地名起源説話としたもの。《日本書紀》崇神天皇条では，倭迹迹日百襲姫命(やまとととびももそひめのみこと)に通う神が，蛇体の正体をあらわすことになっている。
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