海女玉取り伝説

藤原不比等が宝珠を奈良に送り届ける際に、竜神に奪われてしまった。そこで、志度の海女と通じ、子供をもうけ、海女に私情を打ち明け、宝珠をとりにいかせた。宝珠を取り戻したが、自らを切り裂いて、龍の嫌う血を流し、自分の体内に宝珠を隠し、死体となって打ち上げられた。

その海女のための建立され「死度寺」といわれた。

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The legend of a female diver
When Fujiwara no Fuhito send a sacred gem to Nara, it got stolen by a dragon. Thus he bestowed children with a female diver in Shido, and confessed what happened, and asked her to take it back. Though she took it back, she cut herself and poured blood which dragons hated to inside of herself and hid it inside of her body. Her dead reached ashore.
This temple was established for her. The name of the temple sometimes written “死度寺,” which also sounds Shidodera, but the kanji meaning death is used for shi in this name.