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(see note G8)) and at'e-wartak-a (in (68)). atiwara ‘my vision’ [?]. at’e'yak:o 
probably = atiwinak'o. 
(68) oga‘joa the suffix answers to WGr. -iwona ог -iona (< -ujona). — 
ate-wartak'a (cf. notes (8) and (679) ‘my dead relatives, cf. at:en ‘the dead in 
the underworld (down in the осеап).? 
No. 231. 
How Teermiartissaq in her youth learned to summon her gila* 
and other assistant spirits. 
Then I began to think while I was (still) a child: Why do I 
not try to learn the qilaleq art? I was very poor, when my father 
died.” — “His youngest sister* will probably take me to board, 
free.— As in the beginning I was still poor, ® [she said:] “My аЙа*, 
I delegate it to come to you.** ©) When some of the others are Ш, 
another person says (to me): First make а head-lifting investigation 
of him! I am accustomed to be paid in sinews (for sinew-thread) 
and the remains from the hunt.” % 
So I generally made a head-lifting.© I was wont to зау* as it, 
(my qila, the being that was to become my assistant spirit and which 
revealed itself to me **), was ‘about to move’): “What is the matter 
with him, there? Is he, too, about to lose a soul?’ Then the one 
which had revealed itself to me generally said: “It (one of the souls 
of the sick person) has loosened itself a little.*” &— I say: “Depart and 
‘seek for his soul!” * — Then my soul seeker brings back the loos- 
ened soul.) If the souls of the sick have been stolen away to (by?) 
the bears, they (the assistant spirits) go to the bears.“ They usually 
bring the souls (back) with them.* They are wont to catch the soul; 
after having caught* (it), they carry it in their hands, taking hold 
of it here (from below). **@D They usually follow (obey) their aper- 
qitek (oracle-spirit). * 42) 
If they (the sick) suddenly begin to die (i. e. lose consciousness) 
then they (the gilaliks) blow on them (and) make them well. They 
usually get well. When the sick person(s) in question is (are) 
growing better, then it is that one (the qilalik or her assistant spirit) 
brings to pass that they become well. 4 I usually say (bent over 
the patient): ‘Restore him’* and set them fast! **4) Then they 
usually get in order and then the soul... .99 
He arises: “Arise!” Then the soul usually returns (to the body) 
from below. “” When they (the souls) return they creep into the 
(patient’s) inside. Then the sick will recover.“ The others are wont 
to say about me: ““Thanks be’ for her, there! Because she ‘too’ has 
a qila they have become well.” 19 
‘Equipped with my qilaleq instruments’ I went up (on the fjell). 2 
I came to the great sad grave (and) licked it all over with my spittle. 
I plunged my hand into the grave.*@ Along my hand, this way 
(through the sleeve?) it (the soul of the dead) got ascension. ©) 
After Pikkinor had taught me he (the ghost) caught me fast by 
this (my elbow): “In (for) your life you have him as your ‘prow |?]” 
he taught me.) He said: “The foundations of the angakok arts are 
the ghosts of dead.” He seized me (by the arm) and (shouted with 
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