Chachy is a female deity of the Itelmens of Kamchatka, credited in their tradition with outstanding intellectual insight said to surpass that of her husband, the raven creator Kutkh. The couple are held to have given birth to sons and daughters at the region's great rivers, and the Itelmen people trace their own ancestry to this divine union.
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Attestation
Veneration TodayVenerated in a modern revival tradition 3 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 2 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 2 Sources
1. Chachy (Wikipedia)
Lead section: genderQuote, Lead section: gender
Chachy is a female deity of the Itelmens of Kamchatka.
2. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
3. Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination
Ronald Hutton, Hambledon and London
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