Once the mountain path had come to be maintained well in accordance with civilization, religious women began to climb the mountains, relying on the mountaineering ascetic; this confounded the mountaineering ascetics, who then determined the borderlines of taboo by putting barrier stones and built women's halls for prayer and preaching.
文明が進んで、山道などが整備されると、信心深い女性が逆に修験者を頼って登山してくるようになり、困った修験者たちが結界石を置いてタブーの範囲を決め、その外側に女人堂を置いて祈祷や説法を行なったのだとする。