Hi there! Welcome to the thirteenth episode of Stories That Made Us where we continue our journey across cultures to bring to you the stories of our origin and the creation of the world. This episode is about the tale of the Chukchi. They are the paleo-asiatic people of northeastern Siberia. They inhabit the Chukchi peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea regions of the Arctic Ocean. They are closely related to the Inuit and Yupik just across the Bering Straits of North America. In fact, recent studies suggest that they are the closest relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Their livelihood has traditionally revolved around reindeer herding, hunting, and fishing. 

Their story is an interesting tale of creation by defecation and urination, which is how the raven - their creator shaman - creates land, and all the features upon it. The Chukchi have a shamanistic religion and believe that both animate and inanimate objects possess spirits of their own. In this tale, the raven is depicted as the first shaman who brings forth all creation in our world. Hope you get to check out their story of our origin. 

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No.4 Piano Journey

Artist: Esther Abrami

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Keys to the Apocalypse

Artist: Unicorn Heads

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Gypsy Shoegazer by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Get Back Up

Artist: Silent Partner

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Digital Memories

Artist: Unicorn Heads

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Waking to Reality

Artist: Unicorn Heads

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Fond Memories

Artist: SYBS

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Hulu Ukulele

Artist: Chris Haugen

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View of the Valley

Artist: Trevor Garrod

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Evening Melodrama by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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