Yiniaaneut
Koryak · deity · mythic / first times · Recorded classification
Daughter of the raven-creator; classed 'demigod'. The sun-recovery episode is one of the best-known Koryak light-origin myths recorded by Jochelson.
Parentage
Domains
- raven trickster and transformation
Powers
- trick the raven that swallowed the sun
- Recover the sun swallowed by Raven
Relations
- sibling: EmemqutReciprocal of koryak_ememqut.sibling — Son and daughter of Big-Raven and Miti, the brother-sister pair of the first family in Jochelson's tale corpus.W. Jochelson, The Koryak (Jesup North Pacific Expedition VI, 1908) (primary)
Sources
- Yiniaaneut, a daughter of Big-Raven, recovers the swallowed sun by trickery and re-establishes daylight; she is a recurrent heroine of the Koryak Raven cycle.: Jochelson, W. (1908). The Koryak — sun-restoration by Big-Raven's daughter. (ethnography); Jochelson, W. (1905). Koryak Texts, no. 17 'How Big-Raven's Daughter was swallowed by a Kamak'. (ethnography)