THE SHAMAN AND THE RELATION BETWEEN NATURE AND HUMAN BEINGS
- The shaman
- The legend of the Mother of the Sea
- The legend of the Weather Being
You solve the tasks by using
- Text
- Audio
- Drawing tools
This part is based on pp. 46-53 – there you will find information about the subject.
See video about the Mother of the Sea here.
In difficult times for the settlement the shaman, called angakkok, was needed.
Angakkok could contact the spirits to find out what the problem was, and how the settlement could get through the crisis.
What did angakkok use to travel to the spiritual world?
Who should angakkok visit to have the game animals released?
Why should angakkok go into a trance – and what does that mean?
When Inuit had committed misdeeds the Mother of the Sea punished them by holding the game animals back in her matted hair.
Angakkok then had to undertake a journey to have the animals released from the hair of the Mother of the Sea.
Why did the Mother of the Sea hold back the game animals?
What story do the pictures at page 51 tell?
What was the point of the legend of the Mother of the Sea?
If taboos and rituals were broken the Weather Being could cause bad weather, making hunting and fishing impossible.
Then angakkok had to undertake a spiritual journey to find out what taboos or rituals had been broken.
When angakkok returned, he brought with him to the settlement knowledge about how to observe taboos or rituals.
What is Silap Inua?
An example of a taboo is given in the book – and that is?
In the picture you see a drum – and what else? (page 53 in the book)
In difficult times for the settlement the shaman, called angakkok, was needed.
Angakkok could contact the spirits to find out what the problem was, and how the settlement could get through the crisis.
What did angakkok use to travel to the spiritual world?
Who should angakkok visit to have the game animals released?
Why should angakkok go into a trance – and what does that mean?
When Inuit had committed misdeeds the Mother of the Sea punished them by holding the game animals back in her matted hair.
Angakkok then had to undertake a journey to have the animals released from the hair of the Mother of the Sea.
Why did the Mother of the Sea hold back the game animals?
What story do the pictures at page 51 tell?
What was the point of the legend of the Mother of the Sea?
If taboos and rituals were broken the Weather Being could cause bad weather, making hunting and fishing impossible.
Then angakkok had to undertake a spiritual journey to find out what taboos or rituals had been broken.
When angakkok returned, he brought with him to the settlement knowledge about how to observe taboos or rituals.
What is Silap Inua?
An example of a taboo is given in the book – and that is?
In the picture you see a drum – and what else? (page 53 in the book)
