YRYN-AI-TOJON The creator deity of theYakuts, he noticed a bladder floating on the waters, and in reply to his enquiry thebladder told him that it was the spirit of evil, the inhabitant of the ground hiddenbeneath the water. Then Yryn-ai-tojon demanded that the bladder bring him a sampleof this earth that resided under water. The creator god then blessed this patch ofearth, and sat upon it. When the evil one tried to drown Yryn-ai-tojon he was dismayed to find that the further he stretched the land, the stronger it became, until itwas a full continent.