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ness or discomfort. — 6. sätumin'a from the under side (of the platform)’ or 
‘from the depth of the earth.’ The soul’s way into the body and out of it is 
through the anus. 
No. 35. The Shooting-star. 
Ittimaneejuk. 
ul-eiarpin'a 1 You star up yonder, 
qu'y tartipty a 2 You who gaze up yonder, 
at a tipik'e 3 Your fingers up yonder 
eruvertin icin 4 Didn’t hold very fast, 
pequvertin-ic:in 5 Didn’t knit very tight, 
am-un tog'iname 6 It (fell) down without touching, 
log’iargiay'iname 7 Without entirely touching against — 
toq:in-ame 8 It didn’t touch. 
NOTES. — 1. ut'eiaq ‘star’ (== WGr. uL'oriaq ‘star’) and ata:t ‘fingers, hand’ 
are at Ammassalik obsolete words, replaced on account of taboo by qa:®?ma- 
suätiaq and awalit respectively. — 3. Two words: atatit ‘your fingers’ and 
pik:e (plural of pin:a) ‘those up there. — 4. WGr. eqip'a: “contracts or presses 
it together’, ‘encompasses it with the fingers.’ — 5. WGr. perqgip:a: ‘bows ог 
bends over it. — 6 (8). Cf. WGr. tor-up:oq ‘was pressed towards or into some- 
thing.” Here, Kuannia understood the form to be an abbreviation of toqir:- 
in:ame ‘it did not touch against (the earth). 
No. 36. Ukuamaaq. The Mother-in-law who took her Son’s Place. 
Tattaqujuk A; Tupaaja B. 
Variants from South Greenland, Kuannia, Moloote. 
To this simple little song Tupaaja merely added the explanation that 
the singer is fond of his son’s wife, and that he robs the former both of 
his wife and of the great seal out on the sea. 
The episode is curiously illuminated by the variants of the same song 
and the tale I was told some years later in South Greenland by Kuannia 
and Moloote (see the supplement from South Greenland). According to Kuan- 
nia, the singer is a mother who sings the song about her son, whom she 
has robbed of his wife in the same way as a man can rob another man of 
his wife. The mother had by degrees become capable of kaiaking and catch- 
ing seals, and had become more efficient than her son. Once, when she re- 
turned home with a Greenland seal from the sealing place farther out at sea 
to where the son could not row, she scolded him for his incapacity. The 
two women had then left him, and had built themselves a house in another 
fjord, where they, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, lived together like a 
married couple and made their livelihood by sealing. But the son later on 
sought them out here and killed them both. 
