In the cosmogony recorded from the Kamchadals by Stepan Krasheninnikov in the 1730s, the creator Kutkhu came down with his wife Il'kkhum to the primeval sea; she sank to her breast in the water and there gave birth to a son, Symskalin, who floated with his head to the west and his feet to the east, and Kutkhu commanded the boy to turn into the earth. Krasheninnikov also records a competing version in which Kutkhu and his sister Khutlyzhich brought the earth down from the sky and set it upon the sea. Symskalin thus stands at the very beginning of the Itelmen first-times, the primordial child whose body is the land.