Pinga
Inuit · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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 “The one on high”; goddess of the hunt, fertility, and the keeper of soulsKnud Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929) (primary)