The appearance of Yata-no-karasu pleased the Sumera-mikoto exceedingly. He said delightfully, “What the bird has swooped down realizes my auspicious dream. What a great thing, indeed! How wonderful it is! It must be a sign that Amaterasu-oomikami would have intention to help our great exploit!
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In the dream of the Sumera-mikoto, Amaterasu-oomikami appeared and told him, “I will send you the Yata-no-karasu now. Make it your conductor.” Karasu means a divine raven, which has been regarded as a symbol of the sun not only in Japan but also in Asia widely. Just as what Amaterasu-oomi-kami promised, Yata-no-karasu was swooping down.
The royal army, in high spirits, launched and tried to betake themselves to the Uchi-tu-kuni, where long ago Nigihayahi-no-mikoto had descended from heaven flying in the Ame-no-iwahune. However, because the precipitous mountains got in their way, they could not advance any more. Coming to the standstill and being at a loss, the Sumera-mikoto spelt and dream there.
The following morning, Takakura-ji opened the door of his armory according to the revelation of Takemikazu-ti and surely found a sword whose point stuck into the floor board. Pulling out the divine sword, Tkakura-ji immediately hastened to visit the Sumera-mikoto and offered it to the Sumera-mikoto. Then though the Sumera-mikoto slept deeply, he suddenly woke up and murmured why he had spelt so long. Simultaneously, sleeping royal soldiers suffered from poison also woke up.
Then, Takemikazuti-no-mikoto, turning his face to Takakura-ji, told him, “My sword is called Hutu-no-mitama. I shall leave this sword in your armory. Devote the sword to the descendant of the heavenly deities.” Hutu-no-mitama means the spirit of Hutu. At the moment when Takakura-ji had just complied with divine revelation of Takemikazuti-no-mikoto in the dream, he woke up.
”わ～！ちゃぽ、た～いへん！今日はとって～も忙しいの！”
Takemikazuti-no-kami replied to Amaterasu-oomikami that it would not be necessary that he should go and subdue Ahsihara-no-naka-tu-kuni by himself. He continued, “If I send my sword with which I subdued formerly, the nation will be in order soon.” Hearing this answer, Amaterasu-oomikami agreed with him.
In the dream of Takakura-ji, Amaterasu-oomikami would have recommended Takemikazuti-no-kami, who was one of commanders to be dispatched from Takama-no-hara to Ashihara-no-naka-tu-kuni in the age of the mythology, to go and subdue Ashihara-no-naka-tu-kuni again, because the nation seem to have been still out of order.
The Sumera-mikoto, left alone among four brothers, had to continue the advance at the head of the royal army with his son Tagishi-mimi-no-mikoto. They arrived at the port Arasaka in Kumano, where they fought with another burglar leaded by a female chief named Tashiki-tobe. Unfortunately, the earthy deity, maybe who would have been Tashiki-tobe, vomited so much poison that the Sumera-mikoto and his soldiers came to be inanimate. Ancient people would have knowledge concerning toxic plants or so as well as medicinal herb.
