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Visual depiction of Qaniqilaaq

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Qaniqilaaq

Inuit Northwest sky spirit


a great figure moving through the upper air whose presence is felt in the wheeling of stars and the shifting of the northern winds

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.