Seven pieces in the book's own order — the Anadyr tales begin. A Yukaghir man so lazy he will not rise even when Yaghishna comes to the door shoots the one shot that can kill her, and is cured of lying down. Póndandi, the silent suitor, answers nothing at all — and brings home a bear, an elk, a mountain-sheep, a whole mountain moved to the door, and a valley full of reindeer. His lay follows, sung on the Kolyma: the same Bóndandi, hiding from the girls in his cabin. Kundirik, the prayed-for boy, is promised to the Bear and tricks his way free. A shaman keeps watch over a village vanishing night by night, and meets a black dog in the darkness. A stepdaughter descends to the lower world, cleans the stables and the little house nobody else would touch, and comes home with a silver net. And Gege-Woman catches fish on the seashore while three brothers climb to the roof against their father's word.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
01:44 A Yukaghir Tale — The Lazy Man and Yaghishna
06:09 A Chuvantzi Tale (Anadyr version)
13:10 Lay of Bóndandi (Kolyma version)
14:28 Story about Kundirik
19:25 A Markova Tale — The Shaman and the Black Dog
23:09 Story of a Stepmother and her Stepdaughters
28:57 Story of Gege-Woman
Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: the Yukaghir tale by Anne Pleskov, an old Russianized native woman, Vakarena, the Anadyr River, autumn 1899; Póndandi by Anne Chain, Markova, summer 1896; the Lay by Helen Dauroff, Pokhotsk, winter 1900; Kundirik by Barbara Karyakin, Marinsky Post, fall 1900; the Shaman, the Stepmother, and Gege-Woman by Mary Alin, Markova, recorded by Mrs. Sophie Bogoras, winter 1900. Fresh in-house rendering, heard as screened: Póndandi and Gege-Woman stand whole; in the Yukaghir tale the aim is rendered without the anatomical word, the chopping is passed over for the burning, and the dish-children's fate is not carried; in Kundirik the Bear's end is told plainly and one whole errand is not carried; in the Shaman the gore detail and the closing blow are not carried; in the Stepmother the reported harshness is softened. After the first tale and its music you will hear this episode's short spoken break, placed there by design.
Left out of this part, in book order and by name: Story of Magus (N.164) is excluded whole at this part's full-read screen — its second half is an enacted killing of the spirit's children, heads set in a row, and no cut leaves the tale standing. The shelf claims no completeness that its register contradicts.
Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Crimson Peak.
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