Explore: Gilyak Mythology

The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an indigenous

Sternberg, Lev Iakovlevich; Grant, Bruce (1999). The Social Organization of the Gilyak. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97799-X. Wunn, Ina

Shternberg, Lev Iakovlevich; Bruce Grant (1999). The Social Organization of the Gilyak. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 155–58. hdl:2246/281. ISBN 0-295-97799-X

down the extra luminaries with his bow. In a version recorded from the Gilyaks (Nivkh), the hero flies on the back of a reindeer to perform the heroic

Xigaze, Tibet, up to 90% of families practiced polyandry in 2008. Among the Gilyaks of Sakhalin Island "polyandry is also practiced." Fraternal polyandry was

Magadan. His wife, Tamara Timofeevna Pykhteeva was of mixed Sakhalin Ainu and Gilyak ancestry. After the arrest of Keizo in 1967, Tamara and her son Alexei Nakamura

Based on these materials, in 1892 Grube published a vocabulary of the Gilyak language (a language isolate, also known as Nivkh), and in 1900 he published

1941, he surveyed the tribes of southern Sakhalin/Karafuto, such as the Gilyak (Nivkhs), the Ainu and the Oroks. Ishida Eiichirō, Momotarō no haha (1966)

obtaining dhole specimens during his exploration of Amurland, as the local Gilyaks greatly feared the species. This fear and superstition was not, however