Mimoro-no-Yama-no-Ue-ni-Imasu-Kami

Mimoro-no-Yama-no-Ue-ni-Imasu-Kami is recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume. The name reads "the deity who dwells on the summit of Mount Mimoro," meaning the deity who rests on Mount Miwa in the Yamato basin (elevation 467.1 m, Sakurai, Nara), and is positioned as an alternate name of Omononushi-no-Kami. Mount Miwa itself is the kannabi divine body, central to the ancient Shinto cult. In the Okuninushi passage of Kojiki Upper Volume, when Okuninushi-no-Kami was building the land with Sukunabikona-no-Kami, a luminous deity appeared from across the sea and said, "If you enshrine me on the green-walled mountain to the east of Yamato, I will help in the building of the land"; that deity rested upon Mount Mimoro. Nihon Shoki (720 CE) Jindai upper carries the corresponding passage, with the writings Miwa-yama and Mimoro-no-Take. He is identified with Omononushi-no-Kami, read as a heart-soul and miraculous-soul aspect of Okuninushi-no-Kami. Otataneko, who serves the Miwa cult, is given as a descendant, and the Miwa and Kamo lines descend from him. The chief seat is Omiwa Jinja in Sakurai, which keeps Mount Miwa as the divine body and worships the mountain directly without a main hall, preserving the oldest form of Japanese shrine practice.