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Many indigenous tribes in Siberia worshipped the Raven and the Eagle as the symbol of the Sun. In this regard, the research of the Raven and the Eagle represented in their mythologies has a significant meaning for the research of our mythological concepts about the Raven with three legs('Sam-jok-o' in Korean). Among the indigenous people of Siberian paleoasian tribes, Chukchi, koryaks and Itelmens worshipped the Raven as the symbol of the Sun, light and fire and as the Demiurge, the first ancestor and the cultural hero. But, in their mythologies the Raven didn't live in the sky, separated from people, but lived together with people whom he had created and was shown as negative image of trickster. And they thought that the Raven had no special connection with their shamanism. On the other hand, Mongol-Turkic tribes, Yakuts and Buryats, worshipped not the Raven but the Eagle. They thought that the Eagle was the symbol of the Sun, light and fire. And they worshipped the Eagle as the first ancestor and the cultural hero by them as well. In their mythologies the Eagle was considered as the founder, the teacher of the first shaman and the defender of all shamans. As it is shown above, it is possible to consider that worship of the Raven is the peculiar character of paleoasians and worship of the Eagle is the peculiar character of the Mongol-Turkic tribes. As to our ancient representations about the Raven and The Eagle it is necessary to investigate their mythological concepts more deeply about the Raven and the Eagle.