POEM WRITTEN ON THE WAY TO MY EXECUTION | JENEVIEVE HUBBARD

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Glimpse | Jenevieve Hubbard

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Kutkh | Jenevieve Hubbard

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:06:57 -0700

Although Kutkh is supposed to have given mankind variously light, fire, language, fresh water and skills such as net-weaving and copulation, he is also often portrayed as a laughing-stock, hungry, thieving and selfish. In its contradictions, his character is similar that of other trickster gods, such as Coyote.

The early Russian explorer and ethnographer of Kamchatka Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755) summarizes the Itelmen's relationship to Kutkh as follows:

“ They pay no homage to him and never ask any favor of him; they speak of him only in derision. They tell such indecent stories about him that I would be embarrassed to repeat them. They upbraid him for having made too many mountains, precipices, reefs, sand banks and swift rivers, for causing rainstorms and tempests which frequently inconvenience them. In winter when they climb up or down the mountains, they heap abuses on him and curse him with imprecations. They behave the same way when they are in other difficult or dangerous situations. ”

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OPHELIA | JENEVIEVE HUBBARD

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Scarecrow | Jenevieve Hubbard

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