"Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku" (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) had a record that the shusaijin of this shrine was the same god as the one of Munakata-jinja Shrine, Chikuzen Province (present Munakata Taisha Shrine) and only the place of enshrinement was different, or that it was a completely different shrine, though it enshrined the same god.
主祭神は『日本三代実録』に、筑前国の宗像神社（現宗像大社）と鎮座地を異にするが「同神」であると記されたり、「同神別社」であると記されている。