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FROM HIRUKO TO EBISU

  The disabled appeared in Japan at the beginning of history.
It might be rather world of myth literature than history, a 
baby was born between Izanamino mikoto and Izanamino mikoto 
who were like Adam and Eve of Japan, had disability. 
  When he became 3years old, still he had a limp body, far 
beyond walking. He was called Hiruko. Probably he looked 
like a hiru(leech), which flutteringly swims in paddy field 
and sucks blood of animals. 
  In modern terms he could be a immature baby(aiso maternal 
body might be immature) caused serious cerebral palsy. 
He was abandoned by parents both occupied with constructing 
new country, set adrift in a boat made of reed into ocean, 
wrote off from history. 
  The Hiruko revived in faith of ordinary people. It was 
Ebisu, god of wealth. The rush boat reached a seashore and 
Hiruko became the god of fishing called  Ebisu. 
There is a case　Hiruko in Japanese is pronounced Ebisu,it 
serves as god proof. 

It was real resucitation. 
It is what we call rehabilitation.

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