Qailertetang
deity water Inuit single tradition · 1
Qailertetang is an Inuit goddess who cares for animals, fishers, and hunters and who controls the weather. She dwells with her companion Sedna at the bottom of the sea in the company of seals, whales, and other sea creatures. Qailertetang is depicted as a "large woman of very heavy limbs".
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“The word also used to refer to two ritual figures in the Inuit new year holiday, Quviasukvik, the most important Inuit holiday. Two gigantic figures wearing heavy boots, several pairs of breeches, a woman's overjacket, and tattooed sealskin masks and carrying seal spears and scrapers in their hands”
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