Episode Details

A wealthy breeder's youngest daughter is given in marriage to an Aiwan hunter who slaughters her whole herd — and the Upper Being, who keeps the slaughtered reindeer, restores her life to her; an orphan boy, born of a dog-woman and clad in dog-skin, outruns the huntress who races every suitor for her hand; Object-of-Loathing, a poor herdsman despised by his uncle, is guided by Wolves and a Polar Bear to a rich man's daughter and half his herd; and a starving family taken in by strangers settles the offence between two camps with a running-match.

Chapters:

00:05 — The Reindeer-Breeder and the Aiwan

10:53 — The Orphan

13:57 — Object-of-Loathing

16:38 — The Visitor

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 Reindeer-Breeder and the Aiwan was told by Viyento the Blind; The Orphan, Object-of-Loathing, and The Visitor by Rikewgi — Maritime Chukchi narrators recorded at Mariinsky Post, 1900. Fresh English rendering by KacheliTV; The Reindeer-Breeder and the Aiwan is heard with the book's graphic passages softened and its closing killing left untold, and Object-of-Loathing with one night scene rendered as an accepted departure, 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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