Hokotate Niiyama Shrine
Summary
Enshrined deity | High 龗 God |
Godhood | God of God, the water source of God, a dragon King, the rain request of the water |
Benevolence of the gods | Offer prayers for rain, kihare, agriculture water security, business prosperity, couple harmony |
History | There is the stone called the snake pillow stone I on the bank of the hunting basket no pond. There is the hallowed ground of the thick grove that this pike ritsu I Niiyama controlling shonantaisan great avatar place is protected. |
Dragon King legend
Hunting basket no pond looks like an inferior when I climb up the peak where story ① concerning the hunting basket no pond is steep. As it is a snake again in this place, and the obstacle that the ability de- Crown Prince I quieted with a medium stone earlier did the obstruction of ascetic practices in old days, the Crown Prince says to this pond hunting basket metakotokarakonoyoni christening figure.
A large snake lay on the way, and propagating Buddhism Great Teacher I (initiator of the Shingon Buddhism) accomplished becoming ill at the time of mountain climbing in the story ② old days concerning the hunting basket no pond. Because the Great Teacher confined it to this pond using the dharmatic power, I say hunting basket no pond.
※It was thought with wealth miomotarasu god of water in the world at the same time as a snake and the dragon as the symbol gave harm to a human being in god of water.
Schoolmaster I (the pipe head) lived from generation to generation around story ③ Mt. Haguro Five Storeyed Pagoda concerning the hunting basket no pond. The age of the drought prayed for the rain for general public, and I passed through hokasei rain in the hunting basket no pond, and it was a flood on 3rd, and moisture did the earth when I got o sho.
