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of the Heavenly Grandson’s descent to earth, I came respectfully to meet and guide him. I am the Great God Saruta-Hiko (38).”
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto then enquired, saying: “Will you be his herald, or shall I?” “Will I? of course, I will,” answered Saruta-Hiko. Then Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto asked again, “Where are you going? and, whither do you intend to lead the Heavenly Grandson? So this Saruta-Hiko replied, “The Heavenly Grandson is to go to the wondrous peak of Takachiho in Hyuga, Tsukushi, and I shall proceed to the River Isuzu at Sanagata in Ise; and as you are the first to make my acquaintance, you will please accompany me thither.” Then Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto returned to the Heavenly Grandson and reported these things. The Heavenly Grandson descended to the Wondrous Mountain Peak from the Plain of High Heaven, as Saruta-Hiko expected, and Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto accompanied Sarutahiko to Ise, as he had invited her (Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto is the ancestress of the Sarume (39) Family of Kimi rank, the words “Saru-Me” meaning “she-monkey” and being derived from the name of the God Saruta-Hiko, whom Uzume-no-Mikoto first encountered on the march from Heaven to the earthly land. So this is the reason why both the male and the female of the Sarume Family of Kimi rank are alike styled “Sarume-no-Kimi”).
Thus, from generation to generation, we see that all the gods were in the Heavenly Grandson’s service and each with his own hereditary calling, as the Heavenly Imperial Edict had dictated. The Heavenly Ancestor Hikoho-no-Mikoto married Toyotamahime, the Sea-God’s daughter, and she bore him Hiko-
