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"You're not going far, I hope," he said anxiously; "remember I am not yet an angekok." "True; but you are yet a fool," returned the wizard contemptuously. "Do you suppose I would lead you to certain death for no good end? No; but I will make you an angekok to-night, and after that we may explore the wonders of the spirit-world together.
So far as regards both their derivation and their psychological content, these usages and the conceptions on which they rest belong to a stage in cultural development no later than that of the angekok and the rain-maker.
"Ha! ho!" exclaimed several of the Eskimos, turning a sharp gaze upon the wizard, as much as to say, "There's a puzzler for you, angekok!" But Ujarak, although pulled up for a moment, was not to be overturned easily. "Torngaks," he said, "do not always reveal all they know at once.
"Where do you come from?" asked the leader of the party when they met. "From the far-away there," replied the wily wizard, pointing northward. "I do not ask where you come from." "Why not?" demanded the leader, in some surprise. "Because I know already," answered Ujarak, "that you come from the far-away there," pointing southward; "and I know that, because I am an angekok.
No sooner does the wicked creature spy the unwelcome visitors than, trembling and foaming with rage, she immediately sets on fire the wing of a sea-fowl, with the stench of which she hopes to suffocate angekok and torngak together, and make both of them captives. The heroes, however, are prepared for this.
Indeed the wizard himself condescended to smile at the conclusion, for the tale being a dream, removed from it the only objectionable part in his estimation, namely, that any torngak, great or small, would condescend to have intercourse with one who was not an angekok. "Now," cried Okiok, starting up, "bring more meat; we are hungry again." "Huk! huk!" exclaimed the assenting company.
Ujarak is cunning, though he is not wise; and I am quite sure he has some secret reason for hurrying on this business. He is changing the customs, and that is never done for nothing." "What customs has he changed?" asked Rooney. "The customs for the young angekok before he gets a torngak," replied the Eskimo.
"My brother must indeed be a great angekok, for he seems to know all things. But we did not come from near the land where the Kablunets have built their huts. We have come from it," said the matter-of-fact leader. "Did I not say that?" returned Ujarak promptly. "No; you said near it whereas we came from it, from inside of itself."
"Is it the Kablunets' God you thank and pray to?" "Yes; Jesus not only the Kablunets' God, but the God and Saviour of the Innuit also the Saviour of the whole world. I have found Him or rather, He has found me, the wicked angekok, since I came here." The dying man turned a grateful look on Egede as he spoke. "It is true," said the missionary, coming forward.
He inadvertently said it in English, however, so that Ujarak was none the wiser. "Who is he?" demanded the angekok perhaps it were more correct to call him wizard. Okiok, expecting Rooney to reply, looked at him, but a spirit of silence seemed to have come over the stranger, for he made no reply, but shut his eyes, as if he had dropped asleep. "He is a Kablunet," said Okiok.
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