Inuit Legends

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Inuit Legends
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Inuraruninaat

• If you see an inugarukniq, and you both of you
  are standing face to face, the inugarukniq will
  grow to your size.
• You will wrestle the inugarukniq.
• If you pin it down, and it doesnt move as
  you go away slowly, it will disappear.
• You will remember the encounter a year later.
  But if you remember the encounter before a year
  passes, You will die.

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Mahahaa

• When a Mahahaa walks into an igloo you should not
  smile, giggle, or laugh.
• If you do the Mahahaa will tickle you to death.
  A Mahahaa is a thing that tickles you.

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What is a Mahahaa?

• A Mahahaa is a creature who tickles people to
  death.

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Sedna The Sea Goddess

• Once upon a time there was a girl named Sedna.
  She was not married and her parents were tired of
  supporting her.
• So they dragged her into a boat and when they
  were far from the land her father tried to drown
  her. Sedna tried to stay on the boat. She was
  holding on to the boat with her hands. Sednas
  father cut off her fingers.
• Then her fingers fell in the water, one finger
  became a seal, another finger became a walrus,
  then another became a whale, and a fish. The she
  fell in the water and became the sea goddess.

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Kiviok

• Kiviok is an Inuk the travels across the Arctic
  facing various hardships, both real and fabulous.
  Kiviok was man with many lives.
• He was a hero in many legends of the Inuit and he
  got into many adventures with creatures that
  lived in the Arctic.

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How can Kiviok survive?

• Kiviok can survive anything. He has many lives.
  He can transform into any animal when he dies.
  His spirit never dies.

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Brother moon and Sister Sun

• All the people of the village were at the drum
  dance in a big igloo. A young girl hid herself in
  an igloo, someone entered the igloo the wind
  blew out the light, and someone pulled her hair
  and ran out again. She wanted to find out who did
  this she put some ashes on her hair and waited.
• The mystery visitor returns and gets ashes on
  his hands. When the girl goes to the big igloo,
  she realizes that the marked individual is her
  brother. Angry the girl grabs a torch and runs
  away. Her brother grabs his own torch and fallows
  in quick pursuit. They both run so fast that they
  take off into the air and when the girl becomes
  the sun and her brother, whose torch went out,
  became the moon.

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Ijirait

• Once upon a time there was a girl who love to
  play hide and seek. Her mother told her not to
  play hide and seek alone.
• She didnt obey her mother. She went to go hide
  somewhere then out of no where an Ijirak came
  disguised as another child. Then the child
  (Ijirak) said, Lets go somewhere farther so they
  wont find us. Then the little girl said yes.
  They ran as fast as they could, and far as they
  could go then they went to a really dark place,
  then the child transformed into a ijirak and
  said, No one can find us now, your stuck with
  me. Then she started to cry and she saw the
  inukshuk.
• The inukshuk was pointing to a path. The path
  was the way to her house then the ijirak
  disappeared.

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Qallupilluit

• Long ago, there was two boys who didnt obey
  their parents. They never did any homework.. They
  just played video games.
• The next day, their mother told them to baby-sit
  their 8 year-old brother. They didnt want to,
  the little boy heard them. So their little
  brother went outside and walked on to the ice
  plates. The pieces of ice were floating on top
  of the sea water, half an hour later the little
  boy was far away from the town.
• The boys looked out the window they saw his
  little brother and behind him there was a
  Qallupilluk. The two boys were afraid to tell
  their mother, but they told their mother and the
  little boy got taken away forever. Then the two
  boys obeyed their parents.

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What is a Qallupilut?

• It is a sea creature, it is tall, and it has long
  hair, and has an amauti to carry stolen children.

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Where do Qallupiluit live?

• Qallupiluit live under the sea ice. They wait for
  children who run upon the cracked ice

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Why do Qallupiluit do that?

• Qallupiluit adore children because they dont
  have children of their own.