These Angekkok or Angakut have familiar spirits called Torngak, a word connected with the name of their chief spiritual being, Torngarsak.
A class of wizards called Angakut have power to cause fine weather, and, by the gift of second-sight and magical practices, can detect crimes, so that they necessarily become a kind of civil magistrates.
If the angakut should fail to free Sedna from the transgressions, bad weather and hunger would prevail during the ensuing winter.
The angakut also cure sick persons and make good weather with the help of their guardian spirits.
One of the most curious methods of divination applied by the angakut is that of 'head-lifting.
The principal office of the angakut is to find out the reason of sickness and death or of any other misfortune visiting the natives.
The angakut use a sacred language in their songs and incantations.
Sedna and her father are described by the angakut (see p.
These spirits enable the angakut to have intercourse with the others who are considered malevolent to mankind, and though those three species are kind to their angakut they would hurt strangers who might happen to see them.
I ought to add here that most of the angakut themselves believe in their performances, as by continued shouting and invoking they fall into an ecstasy and really imagine they accomplish the flights and see the spirits.
The performance of the angakutin the Sedna feast, which will be described hereafter (p.
A great number of the performances of the angakut require much skill and expertness.
When a person falls sick the angakut change his name in order to ward off the disease or they consecrate him as a dog to Sedna.
Two angakut stand by the side of it, one of them holding the seal spear in his left hand, as if he were watching at the seal hole in the winter, the other holding the harpoon line.
The angakut believe that the boot or stone becomes heavy and cannot be lifted when the tornaq answers their incantations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angakut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
