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Eskimo Folk Lore
Is Rich Human
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After the Creator had gone,
Toolookahk erw over the land and
dropped Tunruk, the evil spirit
from his beak. Tunruk, like the
serpent in the Garden of Eden,
was a very respectable individ
ual, with a specious tongue which
could make a person do anything
he wished. He told the perfect
man that the advice he had re
ceived from Tonguk, the Creator
or Good Spirit, was not wise. He
also told him that the Creator
was a boaster and could not do
the things he said he could do.
The final result was the first Es
kimo failed to obey Tongnuk.
When the Good Spirit came back
he was very angry and caused
the man to fall into a deep sleep
and cut him in twain so that he
was no longer a double man, but
there were two people and one
was a man and the other was a
woman.
After this incident, Tongnuk
agreed to forgive them, but Tun
ruk came back. He was worldly
wise and told the man and wo
man many things they did not
know and would hiave been bett
er off if they had not known. He
informed them all about sex and
advised them to bear children
and become strong and numerous.
The woman became with child.
When Tongnuk discovered that
they bad lied to him, he told
them to leave the beautiful land
with its fullness thereof, and laid
the penalty of childbirth on the
woman for her disobedience.
The earth changed, the country
grerw colder, and vegetation dis
appeared and the ice packs came
down on the villages and des
troyed many, causing many
death from the extreme cold and
the descendants of the man be
came wicked and stole and kill
ed.
The first men and women were
giants in size and the animals
were monsters. Following the fall
of the first man the earth shrank
from the cold and the waters
flowed over them submerging the
highest peaks for forty sleeps.
Everything that possessed warm
blood perished. The whale sur
vived because he was half fish
and half animal. It was the only
monster of the old days that es
caped annihilation. When the
Waters subsided Toolooahk flew
over the land. In all their leg
ends the crow is a bird of ill
omen and to this day the native
has a great respect for his powers
of evil. Toolookahk saw a small
Eskimo on the shore and picked
him up in his beak. He nursed
him back to life and health. When
the child became lonesome for his
parents Toolookahk flew away
and brought back a girl for a
playmate. From this beginning
the Eskimos have multiplied un
til they have become most pow
erful. But man in physical form
has been barred from life etern
al, and is forced to battle with
the elements for sustenance.
Since the days of the great
flood an undying hatred has ex
isted between the coast Eskimos
and the hill tribes. The coast In
nuits claim that the latter could
have prevented the catastrophe,
but instead invoked the moon to
destroy them.
The Eskimos claim that in tim
es far back their country was
warm and verdant and that ice
and snow were unknown. Their
forefathers had many wives and
meat, and loitered in the sun
throughout the year. Now the sun
hides from them to remind them
of their sins, and only comes
back in the summer to give the
birds and the animals an oppor
tuniyt to raise their young.
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