Tyzhil-Kutkhu
In Krasheninnikov's account of the Kamchadal faith, Tyzhil-Kutkhu is the son born to the creator Kutkhu and his wife Il'kkhum after the family settled on Kamchatka. When Kutkhu left the peninsula, Tyzhil-Kutkhu married his sister Siduka and remained as master of the land: he created the land animals and appointed the cloud-dweller Pilyachuch (Bilyukai) their herdsman, made clothing from their skins, and, after living at first on bark, invented boats and nettle-fibre fishing nets, teaching his son Amleia to fish. Krasheninnikov stresses that the Kamchadals therefore honoured Tyzhil-Kutkhu rather than Kutkhu, celebrating him at their November festival; through Amleia and the daughter Sidukamshich his line was held to be the source of the peoples of Kamchatka.
Parentage
- parent: Raven (Kutkh)
Domains
- creation of the land animals
- subsistence crafts boats and nets
Powers
- to create the land animals and clothe people in their skins
- to devise boats and nettle-fibre fishing nets
Relations
- spouse: SidukaAfter Kutkhu's departure from Kamchatka, Tyzhil-Kutkhu took his sister Siduka to wife; from their line the peoples of Kamchatka descend.S. P. Krasheninnikov, Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (1755), vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 11. (secondary)
- sibling: SidukaSiduka is his sister, 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 his 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
- Tyzhil-Kutkhu is the son of the creator Kutkhu who remained on Kamchatka after his father's departure, married his sister Siduka, created the land animals, invented boats and nettle nets, and became the ancestor and honoured object of the Kamchadals' November festivities.: 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)