Then gods were born one after another, and because of the passage in which two gods of kuni-umi (the birth of [the land] of Japan) put down a pike and made islands, it seems to have been considered to exist in the clouds above the sea.
次々に神々が生まれ、国生みの二柱の神が矛を下ろして島を作るくだりがあるから、海の上の雲の中に存在したことが想定されていたのであろう。