The Raven of the tales and the incantations.

Not the Creator, and not Koryak Big-Raven. 2-041 is explicit on both counts: among the Koryak the Creator "is often identified with the Big-Raven ... who represents the chief Deity. In Chukchee tales, on the contrary, the Raven ... even in his name, plays a less important part, and is almost always distinguished from the Creator." Where he does loom larger — the Telqäˊp tundra and Big-River camps — Bogoras reads Koryak influence. Big-Raven is a separate figure under a separate name, and this entry is not about him.

And a distinction the book records without settling. 2-045: one shaman "distinguished between this Raven and the Raven who restored to the earth the sources of light" — the first an "assistant" to the Creator or the Zenith, who lives near the Polar Star and devours disease as a bird devours worms; the second a "very mighty 'Being'" who dealt with mankind only at the creation and afterwards "transformed himself into thunder, and became invisible." One informant's ruling, reported here and not adopted.