Chukchee Mythology

Record summary

Waldemar Bogoras published extensive Chukchi linguistic, ethnographic and mythological materials from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition and related fieldwork. The corpus includes creator beings, animals, shamans, dangerous journeys and stories explaining relations between people and the sea, sky and landscape. It offers a comparison with Arctic catastrophe traditions because environmental disruption is embedded in a broad mythic system rather than isolated as a flood report. The work’s English presentation is mediated through translation and early-twentieth-century ethnographic framing. Any proposed deluge motif should be traced to a named Chukchi narrative and its original publication context.