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IV. RELIGIOUS DRUM SONGS (ANGAKOK SONGS) 
No. 103. Song of Anaawaı), the Assistant Spirit. 
Mitsuarnianya. 
In this song the angakok’s assistant spirit, Anaawan by name, sings of his 
longing for sum- 
mer. The toornat 
(angakoks’ assist- 
ant spirits) roam 
over the moun- 
tains, stepping 
from one peak to 
the next. When 
the snow has melt- 
ed on the fells 
they are said to 
smell (or kiss) one 
another. In the 
language of the 
spirits the earth is 
called them great 
little land”, and the 
summer ‘the great 
woman-time.’ 
Fig. 49. Landscape from the island of Atteqin near Cape Dan. 
(From a painting by Mrs. E. Locher Thalbitzer. 
— Ammassalik 1906.) 
ananalewen nunara'rtiwoman'a 1 
ananale wen nunara'rtiwoman’a 
tut-artiorniniwva 
N 
anana‘le-wen arnarnertivoman‘a 4 
ananale wen nunara'rtiwomak'ı 5 
ene wit two maki 
kunerqa-rtinagin 
апапа еше’ п 
Might you soon be happy and de- 
lightful 
This great little land! 
How it (enjoys, or suffers?) being 
trod upon! 
Might you soon be happy and de- 
lightful, this great woman-time! 
Might you soon be happy and de- 
lightful, these great little places! 
These high mountain peaks! 
Ere they for the first time smell 
one another. 
Might you soon be happy and de- 
lightful! 
NOTES. — According to Kuannia, nunara‘rtiwag ‘the great little land’ is a 
word from the language of the Inorutsit and Innertiwin, and consequently 
shows that Anaaway belongs to one of these mythical people. -le-we'n would 
be WGr. -leruwin. — 3. Kuannia would derive the word from ад ‘listening’, 
the whole meaning. according to Kuannia, ‘how still the land is (in its soli- 
tude[?) or ‘how it hearkens, observant and still”). The suffix -Ног is perhaps 
WGr. -мог which means ‘is greatly or painfully occupied in his mind by 
something.’ But my informant and Johan Petersen were of the opinion that 
we here have the verb tut-arpon ‘is trampled flat or trodden under foot.’ 
