It happened in a fairy tale, they say. Far away on the northern side lived Soap the Giant. He did not stay in one place for a long time, he moved from one village to another. From there, on the northern side, he walked around the entire coast around the cape and stopped in Sireniki.
Before the arrival of Myla, the people in Sireniki began to decrease. Many dugouts became empty, people were dying of hunger and disease. As soon as Mylya came to Sireniki, people stopped dying out. The sea beast approached the shore, luck came to the hunters, and the inhabitants forgot about hunger. Even at the Ukhsik rock, walruses, bearded seals, and seals were now caught from the edge of the ice, without going far into the sea.
He took Soap in to raise an ordinary Eskimo orphan boy. The boy grew quickly and soon learned to catch more sea animals than any adult hunter had ever caught.
There was an evil joker among the residents of the village. This joker loved to do bad things to people. One day he decided to play a joke on the pupil of the good giant Soap. Mylya ate nothing except walrus liver. He didn’t go ashore himself, but usually sent his pupil for the liver, since the ice broke under Mylya, and on the shore his feet sank into the sand. Hunters once caught a lot of walruses and skinned them on the fast ice. Everyone who could carry prey into the meat pits went to the fast ice. Mylya sent his boy to the hunters for liver. Behind the fast ice of thick ice, thin ice began near the hunters. An evil joker saw a boy coming for a liver and shouted:
- On the liver, boy!
And after that he threw the liver onto thin ice. Myla’s pupil rushed for the liver, the ice broke under him, and he began to drown. People wanted to save him, but were afraid of failure. And the boy drowned.
Then the evil joker took out the liver with a stick and ordered one young man to take it to Myla. Having brought the liver, the young man said:
- Mylya, here’s a liver for you!
Mylya got out of the dugout and saw that his pupil was not there. Didn't say anything. He took the liver and hung it over the grease pit. Lice began to fall from the liver into the grease pit. Seeing this, he quickly began to dress in a large cloak made of reindeer rovduga. He pulled his hood up, tied it tightly so as not to blow, and left the dugout. Coming out, he began to rake the snow in large armfuls around the circle and carry it into one pile. He filled a whole mountain with snow. At this time, many men, women and children were on the ice. Mylya approached the snowy mountain and began to blow on it with all his might. Suddenly, it was as if something had opened up: a strong north wind blew. People did not have time to run out from the fast ice to the shore, the ice was torn off and carried into the sea. How to be saved? Excitement began, and the ice floe with people was carried away further and further. The wind did not subside until summer. Those carried away by the ice floe did not return, and those who remained in Sireniki lived without meat and fat. When they tried to get the remains of old meat in warehouses, many did not return home because the wind did not allow them to rise from the pits. Only those who had food supplies at home survived.
Since then, few Eskimos have remained in Sireniki. And Soap the Giant has since left and no one has seen him again. He went over that mountain to Mangak. On the way to Mangak, not far from Sireniki, he poured out two piles of large stones from the thumbs of his mittens; one of them is larger, the other is smaller. Pedestrians still see these stones. Where Mylya walked to the west, his traces are still visible. Even moss does not grow on these tracks the size of a canoe. They say that Mylya, leaving Sireniki, spent the night in the upper reaches of the Syanlyk River, but no one knows where he went.
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Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru