The application to the Shinto deities of words implying sovereignty is illustrated by _sube_ or _sume_, which enters into a number of compounds relating to the Gods or Mikados. This word means "to collect together into one," and hence "to hold general rule over." _Sumera_ or _sumeragi no mikoto_ is the Mikado. Several deities enjoy the honorary epithet of _Sume-gami_, or _Subera-gami_. _Mi-koto_, august thing, is also applied equally to Gods and Mikados, and in ancient times even to parents. It is nearly equivalent to our "majesty." _Wake_, a branch, that is to say, a branch of the imperial family, a prince, is applied to deities. _Hiko_ and _hime_ occur frequently in the names of gods. These words mean literally sun-child and sun-female, but in practice they are equivalent to prince and princess, or lord and lady. In the history of these words one may observe the operation of both of the great currents of deity-forming thought. _Hi_, sun, is used as an epithet for the glorification of human personages, and the compounds _hiko_ and _hime_ are in turn applied to nature powers as a personifying term. The Wind-God is a _hiko_. The rhetorical impulse to realize in its various phases the human character of the nature deities of Shinto has produced a number of subsidiary personages, who are attached to them as wives, children, ministers, or attendants. Some of these are also nature deities. In others we find a union of the two deity-making tendencies. Thus Koyane, by the circumstance of his descent from Musubi, the God of Growth, and by his position of high-priest to the Sun-Goddess, belongs to the category of nature deities, while as an embodiment of the collective humanity of the Nakatomi sacerdotal corporation, whose ancestor he is feigned to be, he belongs to the class of deified human beings.