Hiruko

Hiruko is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the divine marriage and the country- and deity-making passages in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume, where the first child of Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto, born after a mistaken courtship in which the woman spoke first, is set afloat in a reed boat because his form was unsatisfactory. The database preserves the name with its scene reference. From later tradition Hiruko has been identified with Ebisu in some streams of cult, but Kojiki itself records only the scene of his being set adrift. IZANORA registers the entry as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.