Kuutkh (Kutkh)
Kutkh (Kuutkh, Kutq) is the great raven-creator of the Chukchi, Koryak, and Itelmen peoples of Siberia: a shape-shifting trickster who appears as raven or man, made the land, rivers, and people, stole the sun, and brought fire to humankind. Protective yet mischievous, he is the central culture-hero of the Chukotkan myth cycle.