Sacred place
Shirayama Hime Shrine
Shirayama Hime Shrine in Hakusan, Ishikawa, ichinomiya of former Kaga Province and head shrine of the nationwide Hakusan cult.
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Head shrine of the Hakusan cult and Kaga ichinomiya, enshrining Shirayama Hime identified with Kukurihime no Kami.
Description
Shirayama Hime Shrine in Hakusan, Ishikawa, stands above the Tedori River and is the head shrine of more than three thousand Hakusan shrines nationwide. It is the ichinomiya of former Kaga Province and takes Mount Hakusan (2,702 m) as its sacred mountain, with an okumiya on the summit of Gozengamine. The main deity is Shirayama Hime no Okami, identified with Kukurihime no Kami, recorded in Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as the goddess who mediated between Izanagi and Izanami at Yomotsu Hirasaka. Izanagi and Izanami are enshrined alongside. Engishiki Jinmyocho (927 CE) registers the shrine as a Myojin-Taisha of Ishikawa-gun. Tradition holds that Taicho opened Mount Hakusan in 717 CE. The current main hall dates to an 1880 rebuilding. The May 6 grand festival and the July 18 Hakusan opening festival are principal rites.
Enshrined deities
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白山比咩神社 由緒・所在地資料
Institutional source各社寺・公的機関
白山比咩神社の名称・所在地・由緒を確認するための社寺・公的機関の公開資料。
白山比咩神社 公式サイト
Institutional source石川県白山市三宮町 白山比咩神社（しらやまひめじんじゃ）の御祭神（白山比咩大神＝菊理媛尊・伊弉諾尊・伊弉冉尊）、加賀国一宮、全国白山神社の総本宮としての位置付けに関する公式由緒。
https://www.shirayama.or.jp/白山比咩神社 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
白山比咩神社の名称・所在地・座標を確認するため、Wikidata item Q704702 と日本語版 Wikipedia を参照。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E5%B1%B1%E6%AF%94%E5%92%A9%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE
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