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   Or saruta-hiko. A deity with a 'high' divine form, as for example revered by Yamazaki, Ansai in Suiga Shinto. He is believed to have guided the first emperor Ninigi, grandson of Amaterasu. He is much more popularly represented in festival processions and elsewhere as a deity of roads, particularly cross-roads, and procreation, by a grotesque usually vermilion mask with a huge protruding nose.