Creator

Spirit-class creator (classed as deity). Bogoras records the name as Tenanto'mwan, 'the one who induces/creates being'; in many tales the Creator's work is performed by Raven (Kurkil), so the two overlap. Cyrillic Тэнантомгын reflects the later Russian-orthography rendering of the Chukchi name.

Domains

• creation
• supreme being

Powers

• watches all that happens through holes in the sky about the Pole-Star
• brings the present world-order into being

Epithets

• Tenantomwan

Relations

• companion: Raven the Transformer

Sources

• Waldemar Bogoras, The Chukchee, Jesup North Pacific Expedition VII, 1904–1909
• Waldemar Bogoras, Chukchee Mythology, Jesup North Pacific Expedition VIII, 1910–1913