Talk:Angakkuq

Common name

As far as I know, the Greenlanders are the largest Inuit group and the typical anglicization of their pronunciation is angekok, which is pretty universally used in (at least early) English histories of Greenland. Is there some good reason (more traditional religious adherents, e.g.) we're using the Canadian version as the default namespace? — LlywelynII 11:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

An angekok's idea of his role

We fear the weather spirit of earth, that we must fight against to wrest our food from land and sea. We fear Sila. We fear death and hunger in the cold snow huts. We fear Takánakapsâluk, the great woman down at the bottom of the sea, that rules over all the beasts of the sea. We fear the sickness that we meet with daily all around us; not death, but the suffering. We fear the evil spirits of life, those of the air, af the sea and the earth, that can help wicked shamans to harm their fellow men. We fear the souls of dead human beings and of the animals we have killed … And so ignorant are we in spite of all our shamans, that we fear everything unfamiliar. We fear what we see about us, and we fear all the invisible things that are likewise about us, all that we have heard of in our forefathers’ stories and myths.

The shaman Aua to Knud Rasmussen, from Kleivan, Inge & al. Eskimos: Greenland and Canada (Iconography of Religions, VIII: Arctic Peoples, 2). (Leiden) 1985. Op. cit. Del, Anden. "Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie" ["Greenland as Part of the Biblical Narrative – a Study of the 18th-Century"]. (in Danish) — LlywelynII 11:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

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