She rejected him because Suseri-Bime (his legal wife) was a very jealous goddess and also because Yagami-Hime (the first wife), imagining the intensity of jealousy of Suseri-Bime, abandoned her child in Naoe, Hikawa-cho, and returned to her hometown, Inaba, and these reasons were described in 'Izumo Fudoki.'
拒んだ理由として、スセリヒメが嫉妬深い性格であること、スセリヒメの嫉妬を想像したヤカミヒメが子供を斐川町直江で放棄し、故郷の因幡の国にもどってしまったことがあげられ、「出雲風土記」に記載されている。