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In the form of Inuit mythology in vogue among the Iñupiaq Eskimo of north-western Alaska, Tuluŋigraq was a god created by the primordial aana (or "grandmother") goddess. (cf. the god Tulugaak of the eastern Eskimo)

• When the world was in perpetual darkness of night, he stole the skin-wrapped sun, and with his beak released it from the skin: it flew upward, creating daylight.
• By wrestling her, Tuluŋigraq had acquired as wife an uiḷuaqtaq, a 'woman who had refused to marry'. (With this theme, Lowenstein compared the shamanic experience wherein "the shaman wrestles with" the goddess Nuliajuk, as recorded by Rasmussen (1930) for the Iglulik.)
• He had also harpooned a strange sea-animal: "The animal came up dry. It rose in the water. It was dry land. It was Tikiġaq."

Notes

1. ^ Asatchaq 1992, p. 6
2. Asatchaq 1992, p. 5
3. Asatchaq 1992, p. 9
4. Asatchaq 1992, p. 7
5. Asatchaq 1992, p. 11
6. Asatchaq 1992, p. 8
7. as indicated on the maps at Asatchaq 1992, pp. xix, xxvii

References

• Asatchaq (1992). Lowenstein, Tom (ed.). The Things That Were Said of Them : Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikiġaq People. Translated by Tukummiq. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06569-7.
• Rasmussen, Knud (1930). Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos. Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24, vol. 7, no. 1. Copenhagen.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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