When YAMATO Takeru no Mikoto conquered Kumaso (a tribe living in the ancient Kyushu district), he dressed himself as a woman, and when Empress Jingu conquered sankan (three countries in old Korea), she dressed herself as a man, that symbolized the moment when they are possessed by god.
日本武尊が熊襲征伐において女装を行い、神功皇后が三韓征伐の際に男装を行ったという説話も彼らが巫として神を憑依させた事の象徴であったという。