Mr. Awano

The lightning ran over the sea, and the terrible thunder trembled the earth. As the villagers were watching with breath, purple clouds approached from the eastern sky with a mysterious singing voice.
At that time, a monk appeared out of nowhere and was not seen around here.
"When the purple cloud disappears and the singing voice ceases, build a company in that place. Right now, the Myojin Shuzaki has flew from Awa no Kuni (now the southern part of Chiba Prefecture)."
When he told him, the monk disappeared nowhere again.
Eventually, the purple clouds became smaller, thinner and disappeared, and the singing voice stopped.
Finally, the villagers who returned to me built a shrine on the mountain, as the monk said, and celebrated as "Awasu Myojin".
Long years later, when the shrine was old and about to collapse, the spirit appeared in the dream of the lord who tried to build a castle in this area, and the company was moved away from the sea until the sound of the waves could not be heard. I told you to rebuild it. Therefore, the lord rebuilt Awasu Shrine in Miyata, Matsumoto Village.
As a treasure of this shrine, the snake's skull was conveyed, but it is said that this snake died in place of the lord during the war.
Since then, Awasu Shrine, which the people of Matsumoto Village have always protected as Awanosama, was enshrined together with Amaterasu Ogami at the current Konan 5-chome in 1908 (1908). I disappeared. It is said that the villagers who regret it continued the shadow festival every September, but it was until the beginning of Showa.
Now, how many people will remember Awasu Shrine. Awasu Myojin, who crossed the sea on a purple cloud and appeared in the dream of the lord, may be told later that when he was about to be forgotten with the times, he would be reminded again .
Nevertheless, this Amaterasu Ogami is home to seven shrines in Sasashita, Matsumoto and miscellaneous villages, and the festival is held on September 5 every year.
I would like to think about Awano Su and six other shrines while enjoying the late night of summer, when congratulatory words are raised, Bon dances are danced, and night shops are open.

It is a story recorded in "Old Story of Hometown Konan 50 Episode".
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