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No. 51. Against Sickness (I). 
Akernilik. 
The meaning seems to be this: the dawn’s (or the morning star’s) hound 
approaches; put my dog’s harness on it, and drive in a sledge out to the 
horizon to fetch home the sick person’s lost soul! (Cf. no. 93). 
The refrain of the incantation is repeated for each line. 
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1 What approaches me? 
2 The hound of the dawn approaches me. 
qun-im-ale aniwine anitino 3 Put my dog's harness on it, 
asiartik a”tatugo 4 Send off Asiartik ! 
alta: puit 5 You are sent off, and well on the way. 
suna ak-erpa:'’na 
_suna ak'erpa "na 
utunerip qin'‘ia ak'erpa na 
What approaches me? 
uteri dp дипча ak'erpa "na The stars hound approaches me, 
asiartik а ао Send off Asiartik! 
6 
7 
qinimale aniwigin anituno 8 Put my dog’s harness on it, 
9 
a "ta ipule 10 You are sent off and well on the way. 
МотЕ$.— 2 and 7. The dawn’s and the star’s hounds are presumably meant 
to be one and the same, but what is referred to I do not know. Possibly there 
is some connection with the star, Aseet (cf. G. Holm, First Part, p. 105). — 4 
and 9. About Asiartik, the wanderer and the bringer of sickness, see no. 49. 
No. 52. Against Sickness (Il). 
Akernilik. 
ea ea 
o-marcarpara 1 I make it alive, 
eupuna o'mata 2 
That person’s heart, 
at-a-'t ormarpog 3 Only now it (or he) lives. 
pisik'a 4 His leg, |] 
o-masarpara 5 Г make it alive — 
o-mata: 6 His heart. 
at at о`тагрод 7 Only now it (or he) lives. 
NOTES. — 2. e-uyuna probably instead of eum una (WGr. шир una). — 
4-7. The meaning is probably: he is able to rise and go again. 
No. 53. Against Sickness (III). 
Akernilik. 
The cause of the sickness emanates from below, from the ground be- 
neath the place of the platform. 
ea ea 
сор qa'lånik 1 From whose (what animal’s) skin 
да‘гагроа 2 Have Г my platform skin? 
