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The myth of the Amarok most likely originated from the tale ancient Inuit told about dire wolves. [1]: 215, 249, 438, 457, 470 The Inuit culture, the word “amarok” means “wolf” or “wolf spirit.” It incorporates the wolf and the wolf’s spiritual essence in Inuit animism.
According to Inuit mythology Amaguq is a trickster and wolf spirit, able to shape-shift. [1] [2] Amaguq is the Iñupiaq word for wolf. [3]
In 1900, the American naturalist Edward William Nelson described the kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk among a number of other mythical and composite animals: [1]. It is described as being similar in form to the killer whale and is credited with the power of changing at will to a wolf; after roaming about over the land it may return to the sea and again become a whale.
Nunavut has several species of mammals (ᐱᓱᒃᑎ, pisukti), [1] of which the Inuit found use for almost all. The larger animals such as the caribou would be eaten, with the skin used for tents and clothing and the sinew used for thread. In lean times even animals such as the fox would have been eaten and some people did eat it even when ...
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Torngarsuk is the master of whales and seals and most powerful supernatural being in Greenland. He appears in the form of a bear, or a one-armed man, or as a grand human creature like one of the fingers of a hand. He is considered to be invisible to everyone but the angakkuit (the medicine men or shaman among Inuit peoples).
[206] [23] Inuit groups along the west coast of Hudson Bay, as well as the central Arctic Copper Inuit, used narrow inlays of white fur in a way that mimicked women's traditional tattoo designs. [207] [208] Dehaired skin was sometimes used decoratively, as in the Labrador Inuit use of scalloped trim on boots. [209]
The Inuit languages can form very long words by adding more and more descriptive affixes to words. Those affixes may modify the syntactic and semantic properties of the base word, or may add qualifiers to it in much the same way that English uses adjectives or prepositional phrases to qualify nouns (e.g. "falling snow", "blowing snow", "snow on ...