Sokotsu Watatsumi no Kami (the sea god of the bottom part), Nakatsu Watatsumi no Kami (the sea god of the middle part) and Uwatsu Watatsumi no Kami (the sea god of the upper part) are the gods that people such as the Azumi no Muraji (title given to bureaucrats charged with the imperial table in the seventh century, which was hereditary and reserved for the Azuchi family) believed in who were the descendants of Utsushi Hikana Saku no Mikoto, the son of these three gods.
底津綿津見神・中津綿津見神・上津綿津見神は阿曇連らが信仰している神で、阿曇連らは、これら三神の子の、宇都志日金析命（うつしひかなさくのみこと）の子孫である。