These deities (excluding KIBI no Shoryo) are all the vengeful spirits of those who were killed in political conflicts, and this shrine was founded to comfort their anger.
これらの諸神は（吉備真備を除いて）いづれも政争に巻き込まれて憤死した人々で、その怨霊を慰めるために創建されたのが当社である。