Dude I bought your book years ago and it was GOATed! I thought you were gonna do another one soon, since then you’ve done so much, would you ever do another book? I’ve been watching this new channel about how nephilim look like clowns there’s some gravy but it’s annoying that he can’t discern gods from giants. Anyway your channels great and that book was really also very good I would absolutely get more of them.
That’s awesome!! I love studying and learning about indigenous cultures and tribes of the Americas, especially precontact because how the various tribes lived and survived just fascinates me. Your people were hunter-gatherers while the Wampanoag were hunters,whalers, and farmers. Certain tribes only ate certain animal organs or cuts while others wasted nothing and ate entire carcasses after hunts.☺️
I am from the Scottish highlands. I have never heard of these stories but I instantly recognise and understand their meaning. The story of Qallupilluit story especially sounds a lot like the water kelpies in the highlands. They were a warning to stay away from the water's edge and in times of great hardship, they would also give children to the Kelpies so sad. " when the time was right mothers would cut the children free of the seaweed that the kelpies tied them to the loch with so they could be at peace." worlds apart same story. The Inuit people are amazing, thank you for sharing these stories.
it’s so interesting that humans have so many myths which are very similar. i was thinking of the Scottish legends myself. i didn’t know about the children given ti the kelpies though. other myths that are universal are creation myths, flood myths, demons, twin myths about creation, and more. thanks for the information. :) have a good day ☀️🌷🌱
@feralbluee aye! There are a few stories about giving human babies to the fairies to give to the devil with a fairy baby. To keep the clans safe from the evil eye. They would leave the baby on a fairy island for a fairy to pick it up. So sad, they truly believed that and to interfere was putting the whole clan at risk.
As far as I know, the Ainu have a similar belief regarding hunting. They consider all animals to be deities which decide who deserves to catch game. And thus must be given a departure ritual so that they will tell their peers in afterlife to return.
Sedna will always be one of my favorite characters from a lesser-known mythology. Poor girl just can’t catch a break in any story but she always comes out on top- er, bottom, as a sea god.
Special mention goes to the Ahkiyyini; the skeletal spirit of Inuit folklore specifically from Alaska. It used its arm bone as a drumstick and scapula as a drum which caused earthquakes and tidal waves to overturn boats. Frightening but still not as scary or malevolent as the Gashadakuro of Japanese folklore.
These were fascinating to learn of. Not going to lie - I'm always looking for unique non-Eurocentric folklore and mythology to incorporate in to my D&D campaigns, and this is gold!
I don't know if this is wrong, but I always felt that the biggest difference between a non-native and a native is how much they participate in that culture, rather than the percentage of blood they share, I am sorry if that was insensitive but someone calling themselves a native because a distant familiar was a native but they then behave as a normal christian, WASP American seems wrong, about as wrong as someone following all the culture, living in the same area and participating in their traditions being always seen as an outsider because they aren't 100% native. By all means you should be native full-stop. But again that's just how it seems to me I am very sorry if I offended anyone
Fun fact: In many Slavic languages, nanuk is the word for an ice cream bar on a stick. And, somewhat unfortunately, in other Slavic languages, the word for that type of ice cream is esky(i)mo. Then there are also combinations of the two. For instance, in Czechia, the word for that type of ice cream is nanuk and there is a brand of it called Eskymo. Although from what I could find, I see that this type of ice cream comes from the US where the original brand had apparently been called Eskimo Pie until 2021 or so. Which I found quite surprising.
As a child i had two recurring nightmares: One of a creature posing as my mother luring me close enough to eat me, followed by one of being tickled to death. The fact that those creatures from my nightmares are in the same order in this video back to back is nuts😱😰🤯
I just wanted to say thank you for another great episode! It's so good to see that this channel hasn't lowered themselves to the use of AI images with AI narration of an AI written script, like the other 10 000 similar channels on youtube. I've been interested in folklore from all around the world since I was recently recommended to check out many of these stories and it was so good to see some from around the Arctic.
Timely. Because reportedly the now playing “True Detective: Night Country” with Jodie Foster is said to delve into Inuit Mythology. I believe they’ve already referenced Sedna by the 2nd episode, & indigenous people are prominent throughout the show.
I can't wrap my head around how someone came up with a tickle demon (or for what purpose) and expected it to be taken seriously, especially with a name like Mahaha. By its appearance, I thought it was some sort of Inuit wendigo, but nope, turns out it's an Inuit Joker.
I used to have a recurring nightmare of a similar thing ticking me to death. Both the Mahaha and the one before it in the video where basically my two childhood nightmares
The picture given for the Mahaha(sp?) give me a much clearer idea of a reason to avoid such a one. The Artic is a very cold place. Long fingernails, hair blowing in the wind, and dude is giggling manically, all whilst being bare of foot and sporting a loincloth. This one is just pure plum crazy, even if not deadly!
I was a camp counselor in bush Alaska with mostly Yupik campers. They told me a story of a monster called “Big Mama” (could not pronounce the native word) who sounds similar to Quallupilluit. It sounds like elders used her to scare kids into staying indoors past sunset
I really do appreciate you doing mythologies from more unknown parts of the world and from groups of people who don't appear much as they should be by many industries like the entertainment industry for example. Indigenous peoples folklores and mythologies should be able to be expressed and talked about more by global audiences and get the proper attention they deserve to get by the rest of the world.
One hypothesis I've heard for why so many monsters tickle their victims to death, is because their stories are usually told to children, so their parents tickle them while telling the story to break the rension.
On holiday on Hokkaido atm and visited a museum about the Ainu that live here. A people with a rich cultural tradition, with several similarities to this video. Hopefully one day you'll do a video about them, as it is so interesting to learn more about these cultures.
@@GHOSTWARRIOR60The latest episode of Percy Jackson has him travel through a secret portal to Hell. Or rather Hades. It’s in the back of a mattress store. 😮
The Tuunbaq of the AMC show "The Terror" is loosely based on a creature in Inuit culture created when you want revenge. If it fails to get revenge for you, then it will come back to its creator to kill them.
This is amazing! And thank you for opening the video by explaining that the Inuit are several subgroups and peoples and stories! ❤❤ Loved your channel for years, and Im so happy to see the Arctic represented 😍
The first peoples all had these beliefs, the sun included - e.g. Shintoism. the Native Americans would thank the animals they killed for food as their spirits left their bodies. they would thank the Earth for the food she gives, the trees for so many things. it seems quite natural to me. of course, we know all first peoples have and had myths and legends, monsters, giants, little people, creation myths. many had flood myths, it is thought because of the glaciers retreating. it’s all so fascinating. (“Fairy tales” are also universal - like a Cinderella tale shows up in American Indian, African, and Asian stories down to the bad sisters, the special dress, earning the heart of a hero, and the punishment of the bad sisters. who knows how this tale started out in Europe.)
I feel like the Inuit and other various Native American religions give us a glimpse into Stone Age religion, it's really interesting. I believe Germanic/Norse paganism, Suomenusko, and Slavic paganism do the same thing.
I am by no means unintelligent but for some reason I thought Nanook of the North was a cartoon from my childhood in the 60s, but I just looked it up and its a very early documentary. 🤪😞 love your content btw
It's too bad that the people in Hollywood who are so obsessed with DiVeRsItY aNd iNcLuSiOn don't focus on the stories from channels like this one and Mythology Unleashed. There are tons of great fairytales and folklore from other cultures that could be adapted into screenplays. Instead, we get lazily tokenized versions of white characters.
Given how often Hollywood replaces white roles with "diverse" roles instead of just telling stories from other cultures, if I didn't know any better I'd say what Hollywood's doing is more about replacing whiteness than anything else. 🤔
It might have been the second or third to the last of the entities you were describing that the Intuit name sounded like Tom Cotton and I was reminded of one of the origin stories that might have inspired Rumpelstiltskin which had Babba yagga helping out the girl who had to guess the name of the devil himself and after getting him drunk Babba yagga gets him to give her his name which is Tom Cotton.
