Cloud-Man
Koryak · deity · mythic / cosmic · Recorded classification
Cloud-Man is a benevolent celestial being of Koryak religion, reckoned a son of the Supreme Being who dwells with his family in the upper world. He presides over marriage and courtship: a newly married man offers him a reindeer, and young men and women beat the drum to invoke his help in winning a beloved. In the mythological narratives collected by Jochelson, Cloud-Man appears as one of the supernatural husbands of Yiniaaneut, the eldest daughter of Big-Raven, linking the sky-family of the Supreme Being to the household of the creator-trickster.
Parentage
- parent: Universe
Domains
- marriage and courtship
Powers
- to bless and protect the unions of young couples
- to grant success in courtship to those who drum for love
Relations
- consort of: YiniaaneutIn several Raven-cycle tales Big-Raven's daughter Yiniaaneut is given in marriage to Cloud-Man, one of a set of otherworldly suitors she weds across variant narratives.Jochelson, Waldemar. The Koryak. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. X. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1908. (secondary)
Sources
- Cloud-Man (Yahal, Yahalan) is a Koryak sky deity, a son of the Supreme Being, who is the patron of marriage and young lovers and who weds Big-Raven's daughter Yiniaaneut in the Raven cycle.: Jochelson, Waldemar. The Koryak. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. X (Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. VI). Leiden: E. J. Brill / New York: G. E. Stechert, 1908. (secondary); Jochelson, Waldemar. "The Mythology of the Koryak." American Anthropologist, n.s., Vol. 6, No. 4 (1904), pp. 413-425. (secondary)