The name "kannabi" then came to be given to mountains covered with trees and forests and adjacent to human communities, and such mountains came to be called "Chinju no mori" (sacred shrine forest) or "himorogi" (primitive shrine, originally a piece of sacred land surrounded by evergreens), while "iwakura" became sacred rocks as rocks, unique rocks, big rocks such as "meoto-iwa" (husband-and-wife rock).
その後、神奈備は木々や森林を抱く集落に隣接する山として、鎮守の森や神籬（ひもろぎ）に変わっていき、磐座は夫婦岩などとともに岩・奇岩や巨石・奇石として霊石になった。