Miti
Itelmen · deity · mythic / first times · Recorded classification
Itelmen consort of the raven-creator, cognate with Koryak Miti; classed 'deity'. Included to anchor the shared Kamchatkan first-family across the Koryak and Itelmen entries.
Children
Domains
- household and the first family
Powers
- Help create the world and mother the first family
Relations
- spouse: Raven (Kutkh)Reciprocal of itelmen_kutkh.spouse — Miti is the wife of the raven-creator and mother of his children in the Itelmen first-family cycle shared with the Koryak Big-Raven tales.S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (1755) (secondary)
Sources
- Miti is the wife of Kutkh and, with him, ancestress of the people; in one modern Itelmen telling the salmon-people are 'born from Mitti, the wise wife of Kutkh'.: Krasheninnikov, S.P. (1755). Description of Kamchatka. (ethnography); Cultural Survival Quarterly, 'Our Itelmen Language Cannot Be Separated From Our Land' — salmon-people 'born from Mitti, a wise wife of Kutkh'. (tertiary)