pirksoma

Updated: May 25, 2025

This Torngarsuk is the chief of the good spirits, and dwells in a pleasant abode under the earth or sea. He is not, however, supposed to be God, who is named Pirksoma, i.e. "He that is above," and about whom most Eskimos profess to know nothing.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Red Rooney: The Last of the Crew