Sirim

Sirim is a younger daughter of the raven-creator Kutkh and Miti in the recorded Itelmen tales. She is usually paired with her brother Sisilkhan as the junior, unsuccessful counterpart of the elder siblings Ememkut and Sinanevt, running his errands of intrigue, and she also appears in independent comic misadventures, as when her father sends her outside to check the weather and the Wind carries her off in a blizzard. Meletinskii treats the Sisilkhan-Sirim pair as the Itelmen counterpart of the envious rival siblings of the wider Palaeo-Asiatic Raven cycle.

Parentage

• parent: Raven (Kutkh)
• parent: Miti

Domains

• kin rivalry and misadventure

Powers

• to carry messages and further her brother's schemes

Relations

• sibling: EmemkutEmemkut is Sirim's elder brother; she generally stands opposite him on the side of Sisilkhan in the tales.G. A. Menovshchikov (comp.), Skazki i mify narodov Chukotki i Kamchatki (Moscow: Nauka, 1974), Itelmen section. (secondary)
• sibling: SisilkhanSirim is the sister and habitual accomplice of the scheming Sisilkhan, forming the junior pair opposed to the elder children of Kutkh.E. M. Meletinskii, 'Paleoaziatskikh narodov mifologiia', in Mify narodov mira, vol. 2 (1982). (secondary)

Sources

• Sirim is a younger daughter of Kutkh and Miti in the Itelmen tale cycle, the sister and accomplice of the scheming Sisilkhan.: E. M. Meletinskii, 'Paleoaziatskikh narodov mifologiia' [Mythology of the Palaeo-Asiatic peoples], in Mify narodov mira: Entsiklopediia, ed. S. A. Tokarev, vol. 2 (Moscow: Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1982). (secondary); G. A. Menovshchikov (comp.), Skazki i mify narodov Chukotki i Kamchatki [Tales and Myths of the Peoples of Chukotka and Kamchatka], ed. E. M. Meletinskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1974), Itelmen section. (secondary)