Yetl

Yetl
(Yehl)
   In the Athapascan Creation Legend it was a great raven with eyes of fire and wings whose noise was the thunder who descended to the flooded world and dragged the earth up to the surface. He appears to have been the chief of a raven totem clan.

Who’s Who in non-classical mythology . . 2014.

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