However, because the god himself was originally related to the western region, the god arrived at a forest in a mountain in Kuroda-Okuhida in Nogi County in Izumo Province (currently, the site of Kanayago-jinja Shrine) in the western region and was resting the wings of a snowy heron after flying on it, and Abe no Masashige who was the ancestor of the current chief priest of the shrine found them, and a rich person of Asahi, Hyobu OSADA constructed a shrine there beside a katsura tree (there is also a legend that the god also visited Nakayama in Kibi Province on his way there).
しかし、自ら、元々西方に縁のある神であるとの理由で、白サギに乗って、西方の出雲国能義郡黒田奥比田（現金屋子神社の社地）の山林に着き、桂の木にて羽を休めていたところを宮司の祖先である安倍正重が発見し、長田兵部朝日長者が桂の木の横に神殿を建立したという（途中、吉備国中山にも立寄ったとの伝説がある）。