284 G. Holm and Johan Petersen. 



Karrak once went on a visit out to Puilortolok together with 

 the angakok from Puisak at Sermiligak^). When they came out 

 there, only the women were at home; all the men were away. 

 They asked whether they were to perform tornak arts, and, if so, 

 they said the one-eyed man was to begin. When the lamps had 

 been put out, the dried skins before the passage-way began to rattle, 

 and there was a Avhistling in the angakok's hair. The drum went 

 beating away as fast as it could. "It is neither I nor my tartok that 

 is performing tornak arts", the angakok cried. "There comes one 

 in bear-skin clothing^) out in the passage! He has shoved me over!" 

 All the people ran up and shoved out the bear-skin man. 



He filled the whole passage, he was so wide. Some of them 

 struck him Avith clenched fists, others with the soles of boots. When 

 the Moon went out they heard a terrible roar, although it was quite 

 calm outside. The Moon now flew up above the outlook mountain 

 at Puilortolok, while Nelarsik^), who was clad in water-tight skin, 

 sat on an island. When the Moon had gone, Angisak'^) came in. 

 The lamps were lit, and he told his wife to get the children ready 

 for setting otf. 



The day after the Moon's visit, the 'eldest' in the house ^) put on 

 his new garments. He was w^nt to put on new garments every 

 time a seal was brought into the house to be cut up. Towards 

 evening a hammer and a lamp stool were hung up over the door 

 as amulets, and the old man said: "When anyone comes from up 

 there, the hammer will begin to move". When evening came, the 

 hammer began to move, and the lamp-stool fell down on the floor 

 and span round down there. There arose great confusion and 

 embarassment, for all the people hastened to put on their things 

 and escape. They travelled further up the fjord to the people at 

 Narsarmiut. In the evening they heard the sound of barking in the 

 air; it was the Moon's dog; and they likewise heard a bear growl 

 under the ice in the sea; it was the sea-bear*^). 



^) These two angakut were able to üy and go down Ijelow tlic earth. When 

 one put one's hand on them, one could feel how they sank down into the floor. 



-j This was the moon. 



') Nelarsik i. e. Vega, which indicates the time for the Angmagsalingmiut, when 

 it is dark, just as the sun does, when it is light. 



*) He was the father of Kunitit, the now living angakok at Norajik. 



■') He Avas Tifjajats gieat-great-grandfather. 



'•) A monster in shape of a bear, so huge that when it has its fore-paws resting on 

 the top of a iiigli mountain, it remains with its hinder parts in the sea. \\Ъеп 

 it comes up the fjord, the water only comes up to its hams; and when it breathes, 

 it swallows a quantity of ice together with the umiaks that tr\' to escape 

 from it. 



