Nanook
Inuit · deity · mythic · deity
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
Powers
- Decide whether hunters find and take bears
Epithets
Sources
- Boas, The Central Eskimo (1888)
- Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929)
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