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Anguta
Inuit deity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anguta (also called "His Father," Anigut, or Aguta) is the father of the sea goddess Sedna in the Inuit religion.[1]
Status
In certain myths of the Greenlandic Inuit, Anguta is considered the creator god and is the supreme being among Inuit.[2] In other myths, Anguta is merely a mortal.[3] He is a god of the dead in some myths.[4]
Name
His name, meaning "man with something to cut",[5] refers to his mutilating of his daughter which ultimately resulted in her godhood, an act he carried out in both myths.
Function
Anguta is a psychopomp, ferrying souls from the land of the living to the underworld, called Adlivun, where his daughter rules. Those souls must then sleep near him for a year before they go to Qudlivun ("those above us"), where they will enjoy eternal bliss.[3] In some versions of the myth, only unworthy souls have to stay with Anguta in the land of the dead. In these myths, he pinches the dead to torment them.[6]
See also
- Pinga, another psychopomp in Inuit mythology
References
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