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Hiru-ko-no-kami
   Or hiru-ko-no-mikoto. The meaning of his name is unclear; he is in Aston's translation of the Nihongi the underdeveloped 'leech child' born to Izanagi and Izanami and then abandoned. He is worshipped in some shrines under the name Hiru-ko and much more popularly as Ebisu.

A Popular Dictionary of Shinto. .