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Articles about Inuit mythology within North America.
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Nanook
Nanook, more accurately written Nanuq in many Inuit-language contexts, is the polar bear as a powerful being in Inuit religious traditions and oral histories. The name can refer both to the animal itself and to the spiri…
Negafook
Negafook is a name associated with cold weather in some modern accounts of Inuit mythology. He is commonly described as a spirit or deity responsible for severe cold, frost, or winter winds. The name is sometimes written…
Nerrivik
Nerrivik is a figure associated with the sea, marine animals and the survival of human communities in some Inuit traditions. Her name and stories vary across Inuit regions and languages, and she is often identified with …
Nootaikok
Nootaikok is a little-known figure associated in some modern accounts with Inuit traditions concerning icebergs, ice, and the northern landscape. Unlike widely documented figures such as Sedna, Sila, or Nanook, Nootaikok…
Pukkeenegak
Pukkeenegak is a figure associated in some English-language accounts with Inuit traditions of childbirth, fertility, pregnancy and the care of children. Her name and role are not documented through a single pan-Inuit myt…
Sedna
Sedna is one of the best-known figures in Inuit religious traditions: a powerful woman associated with the sea, marine animals and the continuing relationship between human communities and the natural world. In many trad…
Tekkeitsertok
Tekkeitsertok is a figure associated primarily with Greenlandic Inuit traditions and with the caribou on which many northern communities depended. He is commonly described in English as a master or guardian of caribou, a…