At his birth, silkworms and mulberry leaves appeared on his head, and the five main cereals were produced in his navel, so he was regarded as the god of food-origin stories in the Japanese mythology such as Ogetsu-hime in Kojiki and Ukemochi in Nihonshoki.
そして頭に蚕と桑、臍の中に五穀が生じたとしており、古事記におけるオオゲツヒメ、日本書紀におけるウケモチのような日本神話における食物起源神話の神となっている。