Tulugaak

In Inuit mythology, Tulugaak was the creator of light. The meaning of tulugaq is 'raven';[1] cf. the god Tuluŋigraq ("something like a raven"[2]).

Sometimes related to other sky gods, like Torngarsuk and Anguta from Inuit pantheon.

Notes

  1. ^ Lowenstein 1992, p. 214.
  2. ^ Lowenstein 1992, p. 10.

References

  • Asatchaq (1992). Lowenstein, Tom (ed.). The Things That Were Said of Them : Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikiġaq People. Translated by Tukummiq. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06569-7.


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