Raven creates the earth, the waters, and every living thing, and humankind learns to multiply; a little hare wins back the stolen sun from the Kelet; Raven and Owl fight over a hare and both go hungry; and the Upper Being takes a Rekken's child away, so the father learns what his raids cost mankind.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
00:04 — Raven Tale
12:11 — The Hare Tale
15:45 — Raven and Owl
16:38 — The Rekken
From Chukchee Mythology (1910) by Waldemar Bogoras — Part I of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. VIII (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History). Public domain. The Raven Tale was told by Aettinqeu, Rikewgi, and Vale; The Hare Tale by Rikewgi; Raven and Owl by Raanau; The Rekken by Viyento the Blind — Maritime Chukchi narrators recorded at Mariinsky Post and Misqan, 1900–1901. Fresh English rendering by KacheliTV; the Raven Tale is heard in Bogoras's three printed tellings, with the book's frank passages softened and one killing report left untold, per the shelf's screening ledger. 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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