Ōkuninushi's cycle is the longest continuous narrative in the Kojiki and it is a story of surviving repeated attempts on his life by his eighty brothers, being sent to the underworld, stealing Susanoo's daughter and his treasures, and building the country. Then the sun's line demands it and he gives it up, retaining the invisible world of spirits and relations while Yamato takes the visible one — a division that reads unmistakably as a political settlement remembered in mythological form. He is the kami of en-musubi, the tying of relationships, so Izumo Taisha is where people go about marriage, and worshippers there clap four times rather than the usual two. In the tenth lunar month the kami of Japan are said to convene at Izumo to arrange the next year's matches, which is why that month is called kannazuki, the month without gods, everywhere except Izumo, where it is kamiarizuki, the month with gods.