Sarutahiko is the Kami who when Ninigi was about to descend to earth appeared at the eight forking road of heaven and effectively blocked Ninigi’s descent. On learning about this, Amaterasu despatched Ameno-uzume-mikoto to find out what was going on. The latter quickly elicited that it was an earthly deity named Saruta-hiko-no-kami who was preventing  Ninigi’s descent. Ameno-uzume apparently thought that Saruta-hiko was hostile for, as she had done during the Rock Cave of Heaven episode, she “forthwith bared her breasts and, pushing down the band of her garment below her navel, confronted him (i.e. Saruta-hiko) with a mocking laugh.". Saruta-hiko's response was disarming, "I have heard that the child of Amaterasu no Oho-kami is now about to descend, and therefore I have come respectfully to meet and attend upon him