Arnapkapfaaluk ("big bad woman") was the sea goddess of the Inuit of Canada's Coronation Gulf area. Although occupying the equivalent position to Sedna...

is sometimes known by other names by different Inuit groups such as Arnapkapfaaluk ('Big Bad Woman') of the Copper Inuit from the Coronation Gulf area...

Greenland, but was essentially equivalent to the Canadian Sedna or Arnapkapfaaluk and the Alaskan Nerrivik. Bastian, Dawn Elaine; Mitchell, Judy K. (2004)...

fisherman and hunters. In Canada, she was known as either Sedna or Arnapkapfaaluk and in Greenland, she was Arnakuagsak. Nerrivik married the storm-god...

to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong Arnapkapfaaluk, sea goddess who inspired fear in hunters Nerrivik, the sea mother and...

Arnarquagsag, Sassuma Arnaa) Asiaq Immap Ukua Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit) Arnapkapfaaluk Netsilingmiut (Netsilik Inuit) Isarraitaitsoq Nuliajuk Yupighyt (Siberian...

deity and god of weather, water, tides, eclipses, and earthquakes. Arnapkapfaaluk, a fearsome sea goddess. Idliragijenget, god of the ocean. Kanajuk,...

Inuktitut spelling) is known under many names, including Nerrivik, Arnapkapfaaluk, Arnakuagsak, and Nuliajuk. Silap Inua or Sila: personification of the...

believed that dwarfs, giants, "caribou people", and the sea-goddess Arnapkapfaaluk or "big bad woman" inhabit the world. Their conception of the tupilaq...