KORYAK FOLKLORE - 24 tales from the Kamchatka Penninsula E-Book

Compiled by Waldemar Borgoras

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

In this volume you will find 24 Koryak folk tales of

• The Mice Girls,
• Of Whale Festivals,
• The Ermine People,
• Fox Woman,
• Fish Woman,
• Monster Man,
• Bumblebees,
• Shellfish-Girls plus many more.

Unlike European folklore, these stories do not have the dramatic turns of Western folk-lore. There is no Cinderella nor a Puss in Boots. The struggle for survival is the perpetual theme, and no wonder, for the narrators dwell in a remote and hostile landscape.

Because of their geographic location, Koryak Folklore has more in common with the lore of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and other Northwest Coast Amerindians suggesting a broad cultural area stretching from current day Kamchatka across the Bering Strait into Alaska, Canada and Washington State. It is in these cultures that the mythology centres around the supernatural shaman Quikil (Big-Raven) who was the first man and protector of the Koryak and who features prominently in this volume.

So, if you enjoy Native American folklore then this little known volume will be a welcome addition to your library.

10% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

NOTE: The name Koryak was from the exonym word 'Korak' meaning 'with the reindeer (kor)'. Koryaks practice a form of animist belief system especially through shamanism. The Koryak are indigenous to north-east Asia and live mainly on the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula in what is now the Russian Federation. The Koryak Autonomous Region is just a little larger than the state of Arizona, but with a current population of fewer than 35,000.
The Koryak were conquered by Cossack pioneer-adventurers in the end of the seventeenth century and more or less incorporated into the Russian empire by the middle of the eighteenth. The Tsar levied an annual fur tribute and demanded some transportation services, but otherwise left them alone. The Soviets collectivized their subsistence production, and Stalin's Terror saw many shamans and successful reindeer herders summarily executed.
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Leseprobe

KORYAK FOLKLORE

Compiled BY

WALDEMAR BOGORAS

Publications Of The American Ethnological Society

Edited By FRANZ BOAS

Volume V

Originally Published By

E. J. Brill, Limited, New York

[1917]

Resurrected By

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

KORYAK FOLKLORE

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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Note

The present volume was intended to include a collection of Kamchadal texts. Owing to the war (WWI), it has been impossible to communicate with Mr. Bogoras; and since the volume has been in type for over two years, it seems best to publish the collection of Koryak folklore alone.

There is some inconsistency in spelling the verbal endings -lin and -łen. These ought to be read consistently as given here. The forms -łin and -len are incorrect. There is no g in Koryak. Wherever this occurs, it should be read ġ.

EDITOR.

November, 1916.

Koryak Hunters

Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing acknowledges the work that

Waldemar Bogoras

did in compiling

Koryak Folklore

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

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will be donated to charities.

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Contents

Koryak Folklore

Introduction

1. Little-Bird-Man And Raven-Man.

2. Big-Raven And The Mice.

3. The Mouse-Girls.

4. How A Small Kamak Was Transformed Into A Harpoon-

Line.

5. Big-Raven And The Kamaks.

6. Kĭlu' And The Bumblebees.

7. Eme'mqut's Whale-Festival.

8. Eme'mqut And Ila'.

9. How Eme'mqut Became A Cannibal.

10. Eme'mqut And Fox-Woman.

11. Ermine-People.--I.

12. Ermine-People.--Ii.

13. Eme'mqut And The Kamaks.

14. Eme'mqut And Shellfish-Girl.

15. Eme'mqut And The Perches.

16. Miti' And Magpie-Man.

17. How Big-Raven's Daughter Was Swallowed By A Kamak.

18. The Kamak And His Wife.

19. Gull-Woman And Cormorant-Woman.

20. Yini'a-Ñawġut And Kĭlu's Marriage With Fish-Man.

21. Big-Raven And Fox.

22. Eme'mqut And Envious-One.

23. Big-Raven And Fish-Woman.

24. Kĭlu' And Monster-Man.

Appendix I. Songs.

Appendix II. Constellations.

Korykia, or Chav'chyvaokrug, (in darker shading)

part of the Kamchatka Oblast, Russia

KORYAK FOLKLORE

By

Waldemar Bogoras

[1917]

This is a collection of mythological texts from the Koryak, a traditional people who live on the Kamchatka peninsula, in the far east of Russia. The similarity of these tales to native American folklore, particularly from the Northwestern region, is very striking. The characters, although they occupy a supernatural dream-world, move in the same context as the people who tell the stories, hunting, fishing and gathering, celebrating good hunts and going hungry when there is no food. There are trickster figures, and stories about them include gruesome and/or scatological pranks. One gets a vivid sense of the brutal environment which the Koryak inhabited.