{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/kort/index.htm","path":"asia/kort/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/kort/index.htm","text":"This is a collection of mythological texts from the Koryak, a traditional\npeople who live on the Kamchatka peninsula, in the far east of Russia.\nThe similarity of these tales to native American folklore, particularly\nfrom the Northwestern region,\nis very striking.\nThe characters, although they occupy a supernatural dream-world, move in\nthe same context as the people who tell the stories, hunting, fishing\nand gathering, celebrating good hunts and going hungry when there is no food.\nThere are trickster figures, and stories about them include\ngruesome and/or scatological pranks.\nOne gets a vivid sense of the brutal environment which the Koryak inhabited.","title":"Koryak Texts Index","type":"page"}