Hachiman, Kumano Gongen, and Sumiyoshi Myōjin disguised themselves as elderly men and provided Shuten-dōji with divine poisoned sake (shinben kidoku-shu) on the road to Mount Ōe, enabling Yorimitsu's band to subdue the demon king.
Yatagarasu, the three-legged crow, serves as the divine messenger of the Kumano Gongen. The crow was sent from Kumano to guide Emperor Jimmu through the trackless mountains of the Kii Peninsula to the Yamato plain.
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