Nanook

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

Sources

• Boas, The Central Eskimo (1888)
• Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929)