What is Inuit Mythology? | Obscure Mythologies
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- There is no other climate quite as inhospitable as the Arctic. Yet the Inuit people of Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland and parts of Siberia have made it their home. No other people on earth have been so profoundly shaped by their climate as the Inuit, and their mythology reflects this.
In this video, we'll explore the mythology and folklore of the Arctic. From the idea of the 'Inua' that lives in every human and animal, to the myth of Sedna - the Mother of the Sea. Oh, and who could forget about the hard-to-pronounce-well mythical beasts like the qallupilluit, naujakuksualuk and the adlet.
I hope that you enjoy this video. I had fun experimenting with illustration in this one. Thank you all for 370k subscribers!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:53 I. The Inuit
03:15 II. Key Beliefs
04:29 III. Sedna
06:32 IV. Mythical Beasts
08:14 Outro
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Sources and Further Reading:
Inuit - Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit
Inuit Mythology and Gods
study.com/academy/lesson/inui...
Native Languages of the Americas: Inuit Legends, Myths, and Stories
www.native-languages.org/inuit...
Tales and traditions of the Eskimo (1875)
www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/...
Inuit Myths and Legends
www.inuitmyths.com/index.htm
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Intro - Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian by Peter Pringle
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This is the Way it Ends - CO.AG
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The Ulgonsah Witches: Will It End - CO.AG
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Outro - Peaceful Ambient Music by CO.AG
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As an inuk, it's awesome to see my culture here on RUclips especially covered by one of my favourite creators.
We Always love the Native American people.
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hey bobby ma. i wonder if you ever heard of the album eskimo by the group the residents. it's an interesting and very strange concept album, and i wonder what you'd think of it.
Iingai - he did such a good job! I was surprised that he covered it and made my day
It's nice to know more about your people's history💕 Love from the Philippines 💖
@@mohammadzaid1221 Huh, I never really considered that Inuit would technically count as Native American. Neat.
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finally, a channel who did proper research, addresses why 'eskimo' is outdated, addresses how Arctic Indigenous groups are very diverse and that Inuit is just a blanket term, and actually puts effort into trying to pronounce our words properly 😭 such a breath of fresh air! thank you for this video, i appreciate it plenty! qujannamiik!
Basically, people would love a video on every mythology ever.
Well,yes,if...if it's not too much trouble.. :)
Haitian Vodou is particularly fascinating to me and I'd love to see it covered here.
Religion for breakfast made a great video about exactly that very recently!
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@@joesinclair8910 That they did ty for sending me their way.
Agreed
I remember hearing one Inuit myth about the northern lights. (This story could vary from person to person, also it has been a while since I’ve heard this story so I might get a few details wrong) It pretty much says that the northern lights are the playful spirits of dead children. One must be careful and not stay out for too long under the northern lights because they will pick up your head and play with it like a ball.
interesting. where i'm from(northern alaska), we were warned as kids not to whistle at the northern lights as it would provoke them to come down and chop off our heads.
Damn that's morbid, but it's cool to know more of the Inuit myths
The vivid memories of fright and excitement when I whistled just before entering the house back in when I was noob.
And the scolding when grandma tasted the salt on my boots. She told about the greenish fish scale women of the sea ready to snatch you - as she pinched my butt making eating sounds
It teaches kids to not stare at the lights out in the open for too long, i like it
@@charlotenharlot1850 as an west Greenlandic we heard something similar when we were kids.
i’m filipino and researching our precolonial mythology has been so fascinating i would love to see a video about that
THIS, please!
YES
It depends on what filipino mythology.. we have tagalog mythology, ilocano mythology, visayan mythology tausug mythology etc. Etc
First thing you do is find your lineage, what ethnolinguistic group you belong.
Also, look up Aswang Project, he has a RUclips channel dedicated to Filipino mythology and a Facebook page too.
I’d love to hear more about the various Native American mythologies.
Trying to get info on SCP-1836 I take it Dr. Bright?
Ainu mythology looks cool. I really think it would be interesting to cover them next.
Ainu mythology is very rich as well, they have plenty of these gods called kamuy that rather than propper gods are more like representation of the phenomena or forces of nature. It's similar to the japanese kami mithology, that personally is my favourite and which I'm specializing in. Japan has a lot to say when it comes to myths and legend, trust me ~.
@@user-px3hr3xg6o In fact, it's theorized that the Ainu word カムイ (kamuy) may have been an ancient loan from Proto-Japonic *kamuy, whence also Modern Japanese 神 (kami).
it's possible that the aesthetic of Inuit and Ainu culture played a role in Monster Hunter's aesthetic
@@Erikatharsis I heard something about that theory too, interesting, isn't ? Well I thought that was the other way around, that the word was lended from ainu by japanese.
I just commented that he should cover the Ainu! They’re so interesting with such a rich mythology
as a scholar of sam o'nella academy this is pretty accurate. hats of to you
I was hoping someone would reference Sam.
Salmonella school?
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The Brazilian indigenous mythology would be pretty interesting to be covered up
Definitely
As a Brazilian I like to see that
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Yes
Yes please
Maori mythology from New Zealand is really interesting. It would be so awesome to see it get covered outside of Aotearoa! :)
I would love to see a video on Maori mythology, OR a comparative mythology video on Polynesian mythologies
agreed!
I would love for you to cover:
- Slavic mythology, but with a focus on the Balkan variety! The Russian version has been covered time and time again.
- Chinese mythology
- Hungarian mythology
- different African mythologies (sorry Idk more precise mythology group names)
- Israeli mythology
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And to add to this I'm awlays looking for Anishinaabe or Cree mythology. I live in Ontario, Canada and so I'm trying to find mythology of the native people here. It is very hard for me to do so with the only one I find usually being the Wendigo
Edit: Changed Algonquin to Anishinaabe because that is what they call themselves and it is more common to call the people Anishinaabe rather than Algonquin
THIS. I requested some of those topics under the last video,but I honestly didn't think about the balkan stuff at that time. I'd also throw the arabic mythologies into the mix
I was just about to write about the Slavic (Balkan) mythology! I would love to learn more about them
Chinese mythology is kinda covered nowadays. Much better if he can cover some South East Asian Mythology and mythology of lesser known like mythology in Oceania and Pacific regions.
Huge underrated belief system that influences many movements today is my own peoples, the zuni, and hopi.
I'm a shawnee.
Love to hear about indigenous Australian mythology- the Dreamtime creation story is so cool
I second this - we learn about aboriginal culture in school and it's got some really great stories
It's just Dreamtime. And that's what it is, a story. Nobody is claiming such things were ever actually believed.
Nah. Been done to death
Basque mythology would be awesome, it has a ton of interesting stories and it's one of the richest in Europe even though the Basque Country is quite small
I vote for it too!
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Woah 😳 for the question at the end I would love to see Aztec and Mayan mythology 🙏
Another great obscure mythology! Hope you'll tackle Finnish or Slavic mythology in the future.
0_0, -_-, 0_0; The term 'Slavic' covers a LOT of ground, more so than 'Inuit', a better choice of words would be "some Slavic mythology"
@@Nerf_Jeez Yeah, but some figures, like Perun, were widely worshipped.
I'm from the Canary Islands and have always been fascinated by the indigenous people who lived in the archipelago. I'd love for you to cover their mythology, though it might not be an easy task, for much of it has been lost, and each island had its own mythology
I love the idea of a whole series on shape shifters from various myths. Specifically those who shapeshift into animals. There are so many out there!
They're not myths.
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@@b.a.k5367 Mythology is a term for a collection of stories and legends surrounding a culture/religion. Everything is a myth, myth does not intrinsically mean "not real/fake".
@@b.a.k5367 why not?
I'd love to see a video about Tengrism and Turkic Mythology :)
Tengriism / Turkic mythology all the way!
@@conormccann2850 what is it about
I've been fascinated by the parallel with the story of Ashina and Romulus and Remus
I'd love to see you tackle Finnish mythology at some point, it's quite fascinating.
Please continue this "Obscure Mythologies" series !!!
I'd really interested in Polynesian mythology
I would love a video comparing all Polynesian mythologies, from New Zealand to Hawaii to Tonga and Samoa to Easter Island as well.
Was just going to comment this! Would love to see one one Polynesian mythology, I know a little bit already so would be good to expand on it
I would love to see you make a video about Faust and Mephistopheles.
Had to read that in school
@@afdulmitdemklappstuhl9607 It was a myth in Europe, making its rounds long before Goethe wrote his Faust.
From what mythology is this?
@@jmgonzales7701 I guess Christian? Faust is a legend based on beliefs about making a deal with the devil and Mephistopheles is from a very similar background. They’re both important in German Christian folklore. I suppose they’re not “canon” in the same way that saints aren’t because they aren’t mentioned in the Bible. Just stories from folklore with Christian details.
I learned a little bit about Iroquois mythology in grade school, and would love to hear more about it, or perhaps the myths of the indigenous peoples of the Northeastern US in general.
As a massive fan of the "Altaic" cultures, I would really apreciate a video on the traditional Tengriist myths, which have all too little content here on RUclips.
After learning about all the school burials being found out in Canada , all of these videos are even more saddening to learn and watch.
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So true, I walked into my local graveyard today, clearly this means there was a genocide in my town!
True, it’s even painful as a Dënësųłinë́. :(
@@theodorekaczynski1683 ?
@@theodorekaczynski1683 wtf... brov these kids weren't registered as dieing of natural causes.
The schools "disappeared" the kids and their families were yelling for the past 50+ years that the school authorities (mostly catholic) were killing their kids.
Excellent work! I love love to hear about Celtic or Irish Mythology next.
I think Aztec mythology would make a great video! (And plus I'd love to hear you pronounce the names lol)
I would love to learn about ancient Phoenician mythology
Awesome! Would love to see more obscure mythologies especially indigenous people
i’d love it if you did a video on Philippine mythology ! it’s really interesting, as for such a tiny archipelago, we had many different mythologies, usually stemming from different regions and dialects. there are so many things to read and learn about, especially the different creatures and deities in folklore.
I have to say, I grew up in a small village in Alaska, I grew up around the Inuit language, and you do a fantastic job at pronouncing our words, it's not an easy language to pick up, and you say some of the words like you have been living with the natives for years
The video was perfect. It even instigated me to start learning Greenlandic again (just like your Baltic Paganism video instigated me to learn Lithuanian).
I'd like to ask you to do a video covering Guarani/Tupi mythology, from Brazil/Paraguay/Argentina. My grand-grandmother was an Indigenous woman and I'm fascinated by the stories of Tupã, Jasy and Nhandevurusu.
1:04 correction: the people who live/lived in Siberia are Yupik and Sirenik. They are not actually part of the Inuit, though they are related
Yup, Inuit are only in Canada and Greenland, and a tiny bit of Alaska on the border of Yukon
It'll be cool if you'd cover purépecha folklore, I'm part purépecha on my mom's side. People often forget that there is other indigenous tribes in Mexico. I love the story of Princesa Eréndira.
It'd be really cool if you talked about the Bön religion of Tibet and the influence it has had on Tibetan Buddhism and vice versa. Great video by the way!
I am a Murri / Badu Island man of Australia, I would love for you to include our people in one of your videos. Once again, thank you for your awesome work.
Seeing an Indigenous Australian Mythology video would be amazing! I've binged many of your videos in the last 12 hours and they are so encapsulating, keep it up please!!!
Really enjoyed the video!
Maybe you could do Indonesian mythology for the next episode. There's a lot of myth and interesting deities from varying ancient kingdoms
Dude it's so awesome you guys are letting the smaller cultures finally be seen heard recognized and learnt about. We the public gotta encourage this.
I Would Love to see an Obscure Mythologies Episode on ZULU Mythology. African Mythologies are bonkers.
My grandmother and grandfather were Mopan and Yucateco Maya respectively, I would love to see them covered! :)
I would love to learn more about Dacian mythology(present day Romania)! Trying to find out more about my ancestors :)
Finnish mythology is extremely dense and underappreciated and I think it would make for an incredible video.
I didn't truly appreciate this until playing a call of cthulhu campaign which used Finnish mythology in a modern setting... Since then I've tried to digest as much content on the topic as I can
I know there's only two episodes so far, and it's been six months since this one came out, but I would absolutely love to see more from this series. There's a whole world of stories out there, but we rarely hear any outside of the mainstream Western, Middle Eastern, Indian, and East Asian canons. Africa, Siberia, the Americas, and even more obscure parts of the aforementioned regions have so many tales to tell that we just never get to hear.
If you continue the series, please always introduce episodes by mentioning the traditional house and food of the culture in the video, it really sets the tone 😁
I'd love to see the mythology of some overlooked South Asian cultures.
Examples:
Nepali mythology
Bhutanese Mythology
Bengali/Bangladeshi mythology- I'd love this one since I'm Bengali myself lol
Some stuff on Hindu mythology would be super interesting
Jainism and Zoroastrianism since I know nothing about those
As an Inuk, this video got every myth right, just as I heard these myths growing up. The pronunciations of the Inuit language through that smooth British accent were on point.
First season of 'The Terror' is a fantastic dive into Inuit culture.
When I took religion class in Denmark, Inuit mythology came up. You would be surprised at the many rules pertaining specifically to pregnant and menstruating women
I've been incredibly interested in circumpolar cultures for years now, but easily accessible resources aren't super common for me, so thank you so much for making this video.
Dude, from random and obscure Christian fun facts to exploring lesser known religions and mythologies. Your channel just keeps getting more and more interesting. Can't wait to see what you dive into next!
The beliefs, traditions and mythology of the Sami people of the northern Scandinavian peninsula would be extremely cool to learn about.
I'd love to see a video about berber/amazigh mythology in this series
I've been curious about the Aztec mythology. I know there was always a lot of sacrifices to the sun god, but I also want to know about what other gods existed and how they played a role in the every day lives of the Mejica.
I'm Iñupiaq (one of the Inuit of Alaska). You did a pretty good job covering these stories. My people didn't meet anyone outside of other Indigenous to Alaska until 1890. But... We lost a LOT of our information because of colonization since then. Like Canada, we had boarding schools we legally had to attend that were religious and harmed our people. Some people don't remember the stories from before while others tried to find peole to pass that information along. Another mythical creature my family members talk about are the little people (I forget the word, but none of the words you used were from my people's "kingdom"). The little people steal things and might return them later, usually for fun. One of my aunties mentions them whenever she is looking in her pockets for something like a pen and can't find it. There are three other deities. The Raven is our creator, though we were made on accident. And two sisters (I believe) who watch over the dead until they are reincarnated. One who helps them travel and the other to cares for them in the Northern Lights (though not in Utqiagvik, where the Northern Lights are evil and will kidnap you). The last two might be from Canada... I haven't heard anyone here talk about them, though I found references when researching them. We didn't have a written language until my grandmother was in college helping create the first dictionary for Iñupiat (she didn't lead it, but I'm proud of her).
A study found that over 95% of my people have died due to colonization since 1890. So this has impacted a LOT of our culture. It's common to find people in Alaska who are Native who are Christian, who hate Christianity, and who are trying to revive the old ways, languages, and more. Also, I forgot to mention that the Yupik are included under the Inuit umbrella, though they aren't included on your map of Inuit people.
Gnomes do the same thing
I’m an Inuk from Nunavut, and we call the mythical little people “Inuralaaq”. My community would document lost items found under their house, believing it was an inuralaaq living under their house.
I hope that helped with finding the word in Iñupiat
One of the best channels running right now. Those videos are fantastic
Sardinian folklore and mythology sound really interesting. It would be nice for you to cover it.
You know, learning about these obscure mythologies in my own time, I was convinced to make my own series. Hopefully there won't be a lot of overlap because what you got is some AWESOME work my friend!
Really enjoyed this! Just fascinating! You know the mythos of Scotland has been much mashed up and confused. I'd be awfully interested to see you unscramble it. You do a very fine job! Blessings! Francis
Easily one of my favourite channels nowadays. Thanks!
I would like you to cover the Zoroastrianism or African mythology 😊
@Mythology Unveiled yo I'm actually subbed to your channel. Very interesting to say the least ❤️
Just came across this channel, I have always loved mythology and learning more about Inuit mythology was amazing! I also think it would be cool to learn about African beliefs
Awesome! Would really like to hear more of sub-saharan African mythology, from literary any African people group
This is perhaps the most underrated series on your channel, if not all of RUclips
Really interesting stuff! On another note, the editing is really brilliant in this one.
I want to see more on specifically Mongol mythology, as there's some cool stories there that don't get as much love, comparatively to other Asian cultures. Central Asia in general needs more love, really.
Brilliant videos - excellent synopsis - your attention to research is terrific - I enjoy your channel tremendously!
I grew up in Greenland but left when I was 21. Nice video, but there is a lot more, such as the souls playing feather ball in the sky creating northern lights. It always makes me feel very happy watching them. If you want to know more read Knud Rasmussens: The Long Sledge Journey. He grew up in Greenland and did several expeditions. One of the trips was a five-year sled trip from Greenland to Siberia, collecting histories and old anecdotes from all the Inuit tribes. He was a friend of my grandparents. I now live much of the year in rural East Africa. Some African tribes, such as the Maasai, have some cultural resemblance to the Inuit, surprisingly enough! My smallest kids are Maasai. But I miss Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)! I also live in Norway for part of the year to be with my kids there and to enjoy the snow.
Love the series! Would really enjoy some exploration into the Etruscans. They have always fascinated me.
I’d like to thank Sam O Nella for getting people interested in Inuit Mythology
Wow, I am so loving this series!!! Obscure mythologies is right; most channels just tread the same old Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Celtic and Irish, Chinese and Japanese mythologies. If you're doing Inuit, I would love to see Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe, as well as some East and West coast peoples!!! And as mentioned in the previous video's comments, Mari paganism from Mari El in Russia would be fantastic as well!! This is quickly becoming one of my favourite RUclips channels/shows, right up there with Metatron, Monstrum, Crash Course, etc.!
Our Celtic gods are very cool and I’d love to see them here! Great video!
Love the video and can’t wait for more! My mothers family is Caribbean, and I’ve always been curious about the Taino/Arawak mythology. I know some basic myths (such as where the English word “hurricane” originated, and the coconut masks - called vejigantes - of my native culture) but I’ve always found it difficult to find out more information on it. I would love if one of the upcoming obscure mythologies videos was on that topic. Keep up the great work!
Yes, I would love to see a video on Taino/Arawak mythology
Navajo folklore would be an amazing topic
Yes, Navajo mythology is dope as hell
I am so glad you talk about my culture
6:32 When I was in 3rd -4th grade there was a book about a kid that ran into one of these. This just unjammed a great memory. Great video as usual
Hey Hochelaga can you do a video about Amazigh (north Africa's natives) mythology
Berber / Amazigh mythology would make for a great video
loved this vid would also love to see native American/Canadian mythology
@Linguiste ik ik any of them lol I'm native myself but know nothing about it
You should do a video about the Guarani culture it's really interesting and pretty unkknown
I love that the guy who only has to cook when the family is angry is "Angakuk".
I’d love to see Finnish Mythology covered
Happy, as a Canadian this gets included. But I'm still gonna loiter in these comment sections begging for a video about Finnish Paganism; the most bleak and drab religion ever conjured. It is sinister and dark, yet extremely reverent in some odd way. I find it to be the most interesting belief system I know of; one where you can sacrifice your own children as a tertiary appeasement to an angry soul, or where their concept of heaven is comparable to ours of Hell, and where the people were not to hesitant to convert to Christianity to be rid of their dark beliefs.
Honestly any of the indigenous mythologies are obscure and would love to see more of them! Whatever you can get your hands on! Didn't expect this from this channel, nice choice!
Just saying, the Inuits are not indigenous people (as it was explained correctly at the beginning of the video) :)
How the fuck aren't they indigenous
More Native American mythologies would be fun to see. It’s so widespread so many different tribes and nations have different interesting stories.
Could you do more about Dante's work
5:24 That's it, no more fingie foods for three moons
It would awesome to see some Hindu mythology videos. There are a lot of wonderful legends to dive into. Great video as always !
As someone who lives in the Canadian Arctic while not being Inuit it's nice to know some of their mythology in detail.
As an Italian I don't know anything about my nation's folklore (well, except for the malocchio but that's just a word for bad luck so it doesn't really count I guess). When I found a Wikipedia article about it there was so much stuff and I couldn't recognize even just one of the names I read. I'd love to see you cover it one day, even though I realize it's may not be as obscure as the inuit one
Seems pretty obscure to me :)
@@weareallbornmad410 Exactly!! Even my grand parents have never mentioned anything about it so it must be sething really buried in the past. Also since Italy has always been divided in smaller "realms" during history (nowadays they're just regions) there are very different myths depending on where you pick from
You mean there's more than just Roman mythos?
Its weird how Viking call Inuit, "Barbarian and savage" for raiding them when they also did the raiding on other cultures
Norse never meet inuit. Inuit weren't in Greenland til 300 years later. Norse meet skrealing who were the Thule people. The inuit wiped them off the face of the earth. Inuit must of not thought to highly of them. RIP.
So glad I found your channel! I would love to see you cover the gnosticism, the spirituality of spetsnaz (ultra obscure), and Amazonian shamanism. Thanks so much!
Hi, I'm trying to look for more info on the spirituality of spetsnaz but failed to see any online. Can you share sources?
Thank you for covering a subject of my people that I never knew 'cause I was adopted. I feel really more connected to my nation now.
I'd love it if you did asatru. Due to the British assimilation it's difficult but. Itd be very cool to show some of the lesser known norse myths
Hungarian mythology, please! :)
You should make an episode on the Evil Eye! Ive just recently read about it and find it fascinating
Another video like this on the Tlingit heritage would be awesome! A great resource would be Sealaska Heritage, they have good connections with the elders in Southeast Alaska and I would assume all throughout Alaska. I think it would totally be possible to talk directly with these elders about the Tlingit heritage and would be insightful for understanding every bit. They have some of the strongest love for education in my experience and I feel they would jump at the opportunity to inform such a large interested audience, one that really isn’t possible to capture in our small towns.