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Torngarsuk
[< Esk. torngak spirit + - suk great]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
great spirit; the chief Torngak.
See: Torngak
Quotations
1847
There dwells the great spirit Torngarsuk, and his mother, under a joyous and perpetual summer, where a shining sun is obscured by no night. . . .
1909
The Eskimo pray to Sidne; but it is wise to propitiate Atti or Tornasuk. . . .
1916
Near Cape Chidley . . . are the Tornga it, or "Spirit Mountains," a wild and impressive group believed by the Eskimo to be the abode of To'rngak, or Tornga'rsoak, "The great To'rngak," the chief spirit consulted by their shamans.