In the "Kogoshui," he is described as the ancestor of the Inbe Clans in Tsukushi Province and Ise Province, and it also mentions some relationship to Futodama (another ancestral deity of the Inbe Clan).
古語拾遺では、筑紫国・伊勢国の忌部氏の祖としており、フトダマとの関連も見られる。