However, the religious service of Matarashin was started by Eshin school and Danna school of the Tendai Sect from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period, and it is thought to have begun around the same period of the establishment of the Genshi Kimyo-dan (one of the kanjo (a ceremony to be the successor) of the Tendai Sect) of the Danna school.
しかし摩多羅神の祭祀は、平安時代末から鎌倉時代における天台の恵檀二流によるもので、特に檀那流の玄旨帰命壇の成立時と同時期と考えられる。