Case file · Folklore / legend
Aua speaks to Rasmussen
At Lyon Inlet in 1922 the Iglulik angakkuq (shaman) Aua explained Inuit belief to Knud Rasmussen of the Fifth Thule Expedition: 'We do not believe, we fear'.
1922 CE · 66.55, -83.90 · status: account
The account
Aua described his initiation, his helping spirits, and the taboos kept to avoid offending the souls of animals and the sea woman. Rasmussen published it in 'Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos' (1929). Aua later converted to Christianity.