O-namuji seized this opportunity.  He took the great deity’s hair and tied it to the rafters of the hall and blocked the hall’s doorway with a gigantic rock.  Carrying his wife, Suseri-bime, on his back, and carrying the great deity’s vigorous sword, his vigorous bow and arrows, and his heavenly dividing harp¹, he started to get away.  But just at that moment the harp knocked a tree and the earth rumbled.  The sound surprised the sleeping great deity and woke him up.  He got up and pulled down the hall.  While he was unfastening his hair tied to the rafters, they got away.  The great deity pursued them, and when he came up to Yomo-tsu-hira-saka², he stopped and looked far in the distance.  Calling O-namuji’s name, he said, “Wield the vigorous sword³ and the vigorous bow and arrows which you took away from me and hunt your brothers right down to the bottom of the slope, or drive them into the river’s currents.  From now on call yourself O-kuni-nushi-no-kami or Utsushi-kuni-tama-no-kami, and take my daughter, Suseri-bime, for your wedded wife and build a big palace at the foot of Mt. Uka⁴, where you should live together in peace and comfort, you wretch.”⁵  So O-kuni-nushi-no-kami hunted his brothers right down to the bottom of the slope and drove them into the river’s currents, and then began to build the province of Izumo.