Possibly, it was decided in the end that the religious rites would be conducted at the Atsuta-jingu Shrine, and the story of the sword, how it came from the Ise-jingu Shrine to be enshrined at Owari through the hands of Yamato Takeru, was told to give a reasonable explanation.
そして最終的に熱田神宮での祭祀が決まったために、その合理的な説明として、伊勢神宮からヤマトタケルの手を経て、尾張に剣が置かれることが語られたといえよう。