Benzaiten married the Gozuryū after descending to Enoshima. The five-headed dragon, struck by her beauty and divine power, ceased its destruction and became a protective deity of the coast through their union.
The five-headed dragon Gozuryū had terrorized the Sagami coast for generations until Benzaiten's descent upon Enoshima. Awed by the goddess, the dragon repented his cruelty and coiled himself beneath the island as its eternal guardian, his body becoming part of the land itself.
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