Episode Details

A Raven who has nothing to eat flies out to the middle of the sea, sits down on the ice above the house of the Sea-Spirit, and answers so courteously when the Spirit tries on his coat that he comes home to a house filled with ringed seals and fish of every kind; but when his wife the Fox goes herself to ask for more, and laughs aloud at the Spirit in the borrowed coat, she is pushed out, the ice is broken under her, and everything vanishes. And a boy whose father and seven brothers lie drowned walks the shore to the cliff-house where they sit, is driven out by the Cliff-Spirit with three small roots in his hand that fill his mother's empty caches by morning, and then drives a reindeer sledge up the moon's ray to the shining house of the Sun, breathes health back into the Sun's dying daughter as the Raven taught him, and brings her home down the sky to a golden house of her own making.

Chapters:

00:05 — Raven and She-Fox

04:41 — The Boy who married the Sun

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. These two tales close the book's Tales of Russianized Natives, and with them the second part of Chukchee Mythology. Raven and She-Fox was written down by Peter Korkin, a Russianized Yukaghir, in the village of Pokhotsk on the Lower Kolyma, 1895; The Boy who married the Sun was told by Mary Alin, a Russianized Chuvantzy woman, in the village of Markova, on the Middle Anadyr, 1901. Fresh English rendering by KacheliTV; The Boy who married the Sun is heard with the Cliff-Spirit's anger told as an expulsion — the boy is driven out of the cliff-house, and his father's gift of the three roots stands — 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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