It is also said that the Chinese character '虫' (which literally means insects) in the name of the shrine was wrongly used instead of '豆' (which literally means beans), pronounced as zu in Japanese, and a book called "Yamato no Shinsaishi" (compiled by Shozo TANAKA) insists that the original enshrined deities of this shrine must be Takutsutama no Mikado and Shitateru-hime.
「虫」は「豆（づ）」の誤記という説もあり、『大和の神祭祀』（田中昭三編著）では、当社の本来の祭神は多久都玉命とシタテルヒメであろうと唱えられている。