Oyamakui no Kami

There is debate about the origin of the kami with some saying they originated in Matsunoo Sha and others saying they originated in Hie Sha. In 668 AD, Emperor Tenji decided to relocate the capital to Ōmi Province and built the Ōtsu Palace. At this time, the kami of Ōmiwa Shrine in Yamato Province (who served as protector of the imperial dynasty) was relocated as well, and was installed in the Ōmiya (大宮, now Nishi Hongū), whereas the original sanctuary came to be called the Ninomiya (二宮, now Higashi Hongū). However, this is likely a story that was created in later times. In 788 AD, Saichō erected the Tendai Buddhist temple complex of Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei. After the transfer of the capital to Heian-kyō, Enryaku-ji and by extension, Hie Sha came to be guardians of the spiritually vulnerable northeast quadrant from the capital. As Enryaku-ji became ever more powerful, and the Buddhist faith gradually amalgamated with Shinto under the Shinbutsu-shūgō policy, Hie Sha was subsumed into Enryaku-ji. As missionaries from Enryaku-ji built Buddhist temples all across Japan, they also spread the faith in the "" and the Hie kami. The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers were sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan, and Hie Sha was added to this listing by Emperor Go-Suzaku in 1039. This unique number of Imperial-designated shrines has not been altered since that time. == Kamo Tamayorihime no Mikoto ==

During the Meiji era, Hie Sha changed many of its enshrined deities, making Kamo Tamayorihime no Mikoto the wife of Ōyamakui no Kami. In the modern Hiyoshi Taisha, she is the enshrined deity of Juge Gu, where the Juzenji(十禅師) was worshipped, and of Sannomiya Gu(三宮宮), where Kashikone(惶根) was worshipped. The basis for the claim that she was originally a deity enshrined at Hie Sha is a historical document Hoyoshi Sha Negi Kuden Shyou(日吉社禰宜口伝抄) forged during the Meiji Restoration, which is believed to have been intentionally created by Juge Shigekuni(樹下茂国) She is a deity of the Kamo clan's Kamo Shrine. According to the Yamashiro no Kuni Fudoki (山城国風土記. a historical and geographical record of Yamashiro Province), she found an arrow on the banks of the Kamo River, which was actually an arrow in which Yakusanoikazuchi(火雷神) had transformed. When she brought it home, she miraculously became pregnant and gave birthto Kamo Wakeikazuchi no Mikoto(賀茂別雷命) with him. The priests of Hie Sha are descendants of the Kamo clan. he modern Hiyoshi Taisha claims that Kamo Wakeikazuchi-no-mikoto is the child of Ōyamakui no Kami and Kamo Tamayorihime no Mikoto, and the modern Sanno Festival depicts the marriage of the two and the birth of Kamo Wakeikazuchi no Mikoto. According to traditional beliefs, the deity of the Omiya, not the Ninomiya, was identified with the deity of Kamo Shrine, who was her husband. ==See also==