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All the angakut are ‘our guides,’ to whom nothing is unknown. 
They strive to perfect themselves in all such qualities and subjects 
as will behove them as angakut. ®® 
They also search for our (invisible) neighbours (or kinsmen) in 
the interior of the earth, where they SEE with them; when ‘woman- 
time’ is on, at the beginning of summer”, then they are accustomed 
to visit them. @) His (the angakok’s) assistant spirit to be also gives 
him tuition, one who is deeply concerned about. They (the angakut) 
also take three days to be finished with him. After having made an 
associate of him they leave him. @) — They generally say to him: 
“You must be so good as to come and visit us at our house,” 3) 
They are also in the habit of searching for Neemila, shouting 
““Neemilaah!” She lives in a large, horrid cavern where she is mak- 
ing an enormous ulo |woman’s knife]. @ Then she comes out in 
haste and clamour, moving about with the knife she has made. “Nee- 
milaah!” Thus sounds her сгу[?|, while she moves about crying loudly 
her dreadful neemilaah. (2?) 
My younger brother was able to put her to flight. 9 She sank 
down into the lake, he followed along the side (of the lake).@” After 
she had sunk down he did not know any more where she was. °°) 
That same Neemilaah! [shouting the name] he sought her (there), he 
would come to (past) her, indeed; (but) in the water she could not 
notice (hear) that he made use of her weird cry, that he called aloud 
on the great Neemila! ©) Like the (curved) prow of the umiak-cover, 
said he; like such, said he, she was very like it.* Having (this) 
continual ery:®® “Could I but become one who is immensely fat 
from human lungs!” says she. — “It is long ago that she became 
fat. How far from fat she (now) is! because it is very long ago, she 
now begins to become voracious. If Neemila could but (soon) become 
really fat!’ ©) — ‘She’ used to move past along his side at full speed, 
without seeing ‘her. * Because ‘he’ could not see ‘her,’ ‘she’ again rose 
quickly to her homestead, (shouting): ©?) “Neemilah !” — “There, there, 
there she again slips into her dwelling [cavern ?|” 3) — See a ‘human 
being’ up there on the top of the steep mountain!” % 
After having finished his angakok training he made his entry 
into the house, and he had now. become able to do all. G& After 
having become an angakok, when for the first time he had to enter, 
(and) ‘the sound of Neemila’ was heard,“®) then they hastened furiously, 
even the little children swarmed out, although it was in the middle 
of winter.” In there his spirit (Neemilaa) remained alone with him, 
and sat herself down on him inside the house, so that he sank down 
into the ground, because she sat and weighed him down. *€9 She 
caused the wall-skins in the house to fall down, one after another, ©» 
because she wanted to hunt for human beings (that was her wretched 
task), human beings to eat herself fat on. She moved furiously on 
their ‘platform’, (shouting) : Neemilaah! — (then) she crept down to 
her neighbourhood in the interior of the earth. 9 
Afterwards, these, their assistant spirits, enter, the Taarajuälsiags, 
who live in the neighbourhood, in the interior of the earth.“ The 
Timerseet enter, both those who dwell in the steep, high mountains 
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