Nanook
Inuit · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Master of bears; he rules the polar bears and decides the hunter's success, the slain bear's soul hosted for days to satisfy him.
Domains
- polar bears bear hunt
Powers
- Decide whether hunters find and take bears
Epithets
- Nanuq The master of bears, whom hunters must honour so the bear gives itself againKnud Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Boas, The Central Eskimo (1888) (primary); Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929) (primary)