Two Chukchee shamans outwit the Kelet who have come in the night to murder them: Rigowali's keen ears catch what no one else can hear, a friend is drawn living from the frozen ground, and in the end there comes a wondrous dog whose barking can be heard two lands away. Then a man whose Polar-Bear wife is carried home by her brothers shoots arrow after arrow to lay a path of land across the open sea, holds his own in the games of the monstrous Kochatku, climbs to the house of the Morning-Dawn, and comes home strangely changed — until the Zenith takes pity and Spider-Woman lowers him back to this world.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
00:05 — Two Shamans
11:48 — The Man Who Visited the Polar Bears
From Chukchee Mythology by Waldemar Bogoras (1910), public domain — tales recorded on the Pacific coast of the Chukchee Peninsula in 1900: the first told by Rikewgi, a Maritime Chukchee man, at Mariinsky Post in October 1900, and the second told by Qotirgin, a Maritime Chukchee man, in the village of Misqan in November 1900; 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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