Miti
Koryak · deity · mythic / first times · Recorded classification
Spirit-class consort of the raven-creator; classed 'deity'. The same figure recurs in Itelmen tradition as Kutkh's wife Mitiʼ/Miti (the 'wise wife' from whom, in one modern telling, the salmon-people are descended).
Children
Domains
- household and the first family
- trickery and cunning
Powers
- spin schemes and deceptions
Epithets
- Miti the wise wife of Big-RavenW. Jochelson, The Koryak (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Big-RavenReciprocal of koryak_big_raven.spouse — Miti is Big-Raven's wife throughout the Koryak first-family tale cycle; their household is the stage of most recorded myths.W. Jochelson, The Koryak (Jesup North Pacific Expedition VI, 1908) (primary)
Sources
- Miti is the wife of Big-Raven (Quikinnaqu) and mother of his children; she is co-protagonist of the Koryak Raven cycle and appears as a trickster in her own right.: Jochelson, W. (1908). The Koryak — Big-Raven, his wife Miti and their children. (ethnography); Jochelson, W. (1905). Koryak Texts, no. 16 'Miti and Magpie-Man'. (ethnography)