The story has it that Michinushihime no Mikoto, the local guardian goddess, gave birth to a child whose father was unknown, but when she let the child choose which god out of the many he would pour ukeizake (sake which is offered to a deity to ask his or her will) for and the child chose Amenomahitotsu no Mikoto, she realized that Amenomahitotsu no Mikoto was the father.
土地の女神・道主日女命（みちぬしひめのみこと）が父のわからない子を産んだが、子に盟酒（うけいざけ）をつぐ相手を諸神から選ばせたところ、天目一命についだことから天目一命が子の父であるとわかったというものである。