Raven (Kutkh)

Culture-hero / creator-trickster tier; the Itelmen raven-creator, cognate with Koryak Big-Raven and Chukchi Raven. Classed 'deity'. Documented by the 18th-c. Kamchatka expeditions of Krasheninnikov and Steller, who both stress the Itelmens' irreverent, comic attitude toward their creator. Native name leads as 'Raven', with Kutkh in term.

Children

• Ememkut
• Gaech
• Siduka
• Sinanevt
• Sirim
• Sisilkhan
• Symskalin
• Tyzhil-Kutkhu

Domains

• creation of the land
• raven trickster and transformation
• ancestry of humankind

Powers

• make the land by dropping a feather and by defecating
• bring light, fire, fresh water and the arts of living

Epithets

• Kutkh

Relations

• spouse: Miti

Sources

• Krasheninnikov, S.P. (1755). Description of the Land of Kamchatka (Описание земли Камчатки).
• Steller, G.W. (1774). Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka — the Itelmens 'speak of him only in derision'.
• Itelmen folklore corpus (arctic-megapedia, 'Фольклор ительменов'), listing Kutkh, Miti and their children.