Since it is the god associated with water, it becomes the central object in a rainmaking rite; this god is also linked to the god of rice fields and harvests, and the one enshrined in the fountainhead is combined with the mountain god.
水にかかわる神ということで祈雨の対象ともされ、また、田の神や、水源地に祀られるものは山の神とも結びついた。