A shaman blown away on the sea-ice is carried home on the backs of walrus; two shamans who meet on a moonlit sledge-road trade spirits, knives and flight itself — until one of them is sent to fetch Children's-Death, and then Death himself, and binds them both with promises. Then a sick youth is taken by the fire-breathing Rekken and given back whole, with a body no spear can pierce — and not even death, twice over, can keep him from his wife.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
00:04 The Aiwan Shamans
19:21 The Youth Who Received Supernatural Powers from the Kelet
From Chukchee Mythology by Waldemar Bogoras (1910), public domain — tales recorded on the Pacific coast of the Chukchee Peninsula in 1900–1901 and told by Rikewgi and Rinto, Maritime Chukchee men, at Mariinsky Post; heard here in fresh in-house renderings. Northern Tales gathers the Chukchi, Siberian Eskimo, Koryak, Yukaghir and Even tales from Bogoras's Jesup North Pacific Expedition volumes, in the books' own order.
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