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it] (but) when he had arrived up there, the fire went out (in his 
lamp-moss)®). So for a short time there is no moon.” 
toa anigame ikikittue[?] oqutsumik(?] ikipa hi) ikeriarmape naja lipiwoq 
G—j) kilermut tap:o:a tap'oa kilermut (G—k) tap:o-a qa: teniarme: KV aniata 
maleiarpa т) malit'iyo malitino kilermut tap:o-a tike-luterpa’ aniäla ti- 
ke:1üaraluartino qamip'oq (mn) anina nip:oq 
[a No. 216. Asiaq, the Rain-God. 
Asiag is in an ugly temper, there is much to put up with be- 
cause too much snow has fallen,” (the weather) has become worse, 
(and people) are beginning to suffer great hunger. (Then) says one: 
“Thou art an angakok !”?— Не (the angakok) can remove them (the 
misfortunes) — "make him urinate! (him up there with) Asiaq.” & He 
(the angakok) begins to summon his spirits. Another person зауз : 
“He is going to fly through the air to her, he journeys up to her, 
he consults her! he consults her!’ ©) — His spirits accompany him; 
they come up there, they go into her.“ In there on the other side, 
she (Asiaq) pats her big husband,* she tries to make him smaller, 
she is ashamed of her husband, yes, she gives him a sound slap and 
orders him to make water.(® The other, the flier, looks on: ‘Oh 
dear! Oh dear!’ (like a child whimpering from hunger ог pain) so 
the other (Asiaq’s husband) always сттез. (10) Then, at once, she begins 
to make him smaller (saying): “He there, the greasy hunk of stone!” * 
Asiaq’s husband") has a screwed mouth, her eyes (and in the same 
way her breasts) [Пе thus: instead of thus ...]4? the one lies above 
the other (in a vertical line). 
Then the one flown hither, (the angakok) says: “I have come 
to make thee rain urine! For too much snow has fallen (on the earth); 
(human kind) have begun to suffer great hunger. Let there be urine- 
rain!” 49) — Asiaq answers: “Get me more blubber!’’“ A depository ** 
at the inner end of the house passage,* she opens it — one so large 
las is shown] a mitten, soaked in lamp-oil,@° [she takes it out, and 
a great bag] into its inside” she stuffs the mitten.“” Provided with 
a leather strap which belongs to it, after she has opened the deposi- 
tory at the inner doorway") she throws it down (and) says: “Through 
the trap-doors!”! Away it went. “Both the most northern and the 
most southern and the most western? — bow thy head!” * Like a 
dog — when they lick up something with their tongue, — from the 
height up there they [the angakok and his assistant spirits] see it 
[the mitten].?!) — Asiaq says: “Them, down there ye shall see!” 2? 
They got to see it (the mitten), moving on the bottom of the air (?) * 
seeking (contents) (?) ** (and) in its bag when it has, luckily enough, 
got a white whale, it stops.) It puts it in there (in the bag); with 
a large white whale it fills it. 9 The mitten ties up * the (bag’s) 
opening. She pulls it up with many a pull. Asiaq, from up there, 
hauls it (the bag) upwards.) After having hauled it up for an im- 
measurably time, it comes up to the surface, mightily filled. Asiag 
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