Although the myths recorded in "Kojiki" and in "Nihon Shoki" do not mention Kaya no Hime as a goddess with a snake's body, according to some myth her husband Oyamatsumi no Kami (the god of mountains) has a snake's body.
記紀神話にはカヤノヒメを蛇とする記述は見られないものの、夫のオオヤマツミを蛇体とする説がある。