In the early-modern times, the shrine was called 'Take no Gongen (avatar of the gods enshrined in the mountain)' and it was considered to be an ujigami (a guardian god or spirit of a particular place in the Shinto religion) of dozens of villages in the mountain community where watercourses descending from the Nijo mountain range were used.
近世には当社は「岳の権現」と呼ばれ、二上山からの水流を利用する数十か村の岳郷の氏神であった。