Sila
Inuit · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Indweller of the air and weather; among Netsilik and Copper Inuit a giant infant (Naarjuk) whose breath is the wind; the life-force pervading the universe.
Domains
- weather air breath
- cosmic order intellect
Powers
- Raise storms and calm against moral transgression
Epithets
- Silap Inua 'the indweller/person of the air-weather' — the indwelling power of the weather, air and intelligence pervading the cosmos; also SilaRasmussen, Knud. Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos, 1929 (primary ethnography)
Sources
- existence: Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929) (primary); Rasmussen, The Netsilik Eskimos (1931) (primary)