Post by blackcrowheart on Apr 14, 2008 11:47:20 GMT -5
Game of Ball: Legends and Folklore of the Northern Lights - Inuit
Most Inuit groups have a myth of the northern lights as the spirits of the
dead playing ball with a walrus head or skull. The Inuits of Nunivak Island
had the opposite idea, of walrus spirits playing with a human skull
Folklore is from Legends of the Northern Lights, by Dorothy Jean Ray, The
ALASKA SPORTSMAN, April 1958, reprinted in AURORA BOREALIS The Amazing
Northern Lights, by S.I. Akasofu, Alaska Geographic, Volume 6, Number 2,
1979
Most Inuit groups have a myth of the northern lights as the spirits of the
dead playing ball with a walrus head or skull. The Inuits of Nunivak Island
had the opposite idea, of walrus spirits playing with a human skull
Folklore is from Legends of the Northern Lights, by Dorothy Jean Ray, The
ALASKA SPORTSMAN, April 1958, reprinted in AURORA BOREALIS The Amazing
Northern Lights, by S.I. Akasofu, Alaska Geographic, Volume 6, Number 2,
1979