Sometime before this operation, when Emperor Jinmu was to preside at a ritual to serve Takamimusubi as if this god were visible, the Emperor appointed Michinoomi to serve as Saishu (master of religious ceremonies) of the ritual and conferred the name 'Izuhime' (Princess Izu); (although Michinoomi was a man, he was given a female name, probably because there still remained at that time a tradition that it was a female's task to celebrate the god.)
その前に、神武天皇自らタカミムスビを顕斎するときにその斎主に任じられ「厳媛（いづひめ）」の号を授けられた（道臣命は男性であるが、女性の名をつけたのは、神を祀るのは女性の役目であったことの名残とみられる）。