The naked festival often involves battles such as a battle over a sacred tree and so on, because the ability to win in such a battle symbolizes the strength and the reproductive capability and such ability suggests that the man can make a better worker in a farmer's family.
裸祭に神木の取り合い等の闘争が多いのも、闘争能力の高さが男性の強さや生殖能力を象徴し、農家でより強い働き手であることを示すものでもある。