Tulugaak

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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]).


[edit] Notes

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

[edit] References

  • Lowenstein, Tom; Asatchaq (informant); Tukummiq (translator) (1992). The Things That Were Said of Them : Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikiġaq People. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0520065697. 
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