Sayoribime-no-Mikoto

Sayoribime-no-Mikoto (狭依毘売命) is a heavenly deity recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE). She is an alternate name for Ichikishimahime-no-Mikoto, and one of the Three Munakata Goddesses guarding sea-route safety across the Seto Inland Sea and the Genkai Sea. According to the Kojiki upper scroll oath-pact section, "next born was Ichikishimahime-no-Mikoto, also called Sayoribime-no-Mikoto". Among the three goddesses formed from the mist when Amaterasu chewed Susanoo's ten-grasp sword, she is the second, and is annotated as residing at Nakatsumiya of Munakata. Father is Susanoo (by oath); sisters are Tagirihime-no-Mikoto and Tagitsuhime-no-Mikoto. In later eras she was identified with the Buddhist Benzaiten. Principal shrine: Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima (Aki Province ichinomiya).