Pinga

Iglulik sky-dwelling 'one up there'; keeper of land game and of human souls, overseeing the hunt and the conduct of the living.

Domains

• land game caribou
• souls of the dead

Powers

• Watch over the living, game, and the dead

Epithets

• Pinga

Sources

• Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929)