Big-Raven and the Kamaks - Koryak Raven-Big said, "I will slide down hill." [He slid down hill.] He went and found a mountain, which was the largest of all. From that mountain he slid down, and rolled into the porch of the house of the kamaks [1]. There he came in. Small kamaks went to the porch, and said, "Oh, human game has come to us of its own free will!"--"I am not human game, I am a man." They took him into the house, and began to eat his body joint by joint. Still he was alive. They consumed Big-Raven. Then he carne home, because he was a shaman. He recovered his senses, and said to his wife, "Cook some soup for me!" She cooked some soup, and he ate all alone a large kettleful. Then he said to Miti', "Bring the big hammer! [2]" She gave him the hammer, and he swallowed it. He arrived at to the house of some kamaks, and vomited through the vent-hole. (He filled the whole house) and made them climb upward. The big kamak was standing in the middle of the house. Big-Raven struck him with the hammer. He killed him. Big-Raven came home. That is all. Footnotes [1] Evil spirit (cf. W. Jochelson, The Koryak, l. c., p. 27). [2] A large stone hammer with a narrow groove for hafting. Koryak Texts, by Waldemar Bogoras; Publications of the American Ethnological Society vol. V; Leyden [1917] and is now in the public domain. Come visit us at. "Keeper of Stories". http://www.newkeeperofstories.com/