Siduka

Siduka is the daughter of the creator Kutkhu and his wife Il'kkhum in the Kamchadal cosmogony recorded by Krasheninnikov. When Kutkhu departed from Kamchatka, she was married to her brother Tyzhil-Kutkhu; she bore the son Amleia and the daughter Sidukamshich, who were in turn married to one another, and from this first family the Kamchadals derived the peoples of the land. She thus stands as the primordial ancestress of the Itelmen genealogical myth, the counterpart in Krasheninnikov's record of the folkloric mother-figure Miti of the tale cycle.

Parentage

• parent: Raven (Kutkh)

Domains

• ancestry of the peoples

Powers

• to bear the line from which the peoples of Kamchatka descend

Relations

• spouse: Tyzhil-KutkhuAfter the creator Kutkhu left Kamchatka, Siduka became the wife of her brother Tyzhil-Kutkhu, the pair remaining as the first couple of the land.S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (1755), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 11. (secondary)
• sibling: Tyzhil-KutkhuTyzhil-Kutkhu is her brother, both being children of the creator Kutkhu.S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (1755), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 11. (secondary)
• sibling: SymskalinSymskalin, the first-born who became the earth, is her brother in Krasheninnikov's genealogy of the creator's family.S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (1755), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 11. (secondary)

Sources

• Siduka is the daughter of the creator Kutkhu who married her brother Tyzhil-Kutkhu after their father left Kamchatka, and through her children Amleia and Sidukamshich became the ancestress of the peoples of Kamchatka.: S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki [Description of the Land of Kamchatka] (St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1755), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 11, 'On God, the creation of the earth, and the dogmas of the Kamchadal faith'. (secondary); S. P. Krasheninnikov, Explorations of Kamchatka: North Pacific Scimitar, trans. E. A. P. Crownhart-Vaughan (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1972). (secondary)