Another version tells that Shuten Doji, as he was dying, repented all his sins and wished to help people who suffer diseases above their neck and was therefore enshrined as a Daimyo-jin, literally a great Shinto god.
また一説では童子は死に際に今までの罪を悔い、死後は首から上に病気を持つ人々を助けることを望んだため、大明神として祀られたともいう。