Tuluŋigraq
In the form of Inuit mythology in vogue among the Iñupiaq Eskimo of north-western Alaska, Tuluŋigraq was a god created by the primordial aana goddess.
- When the world was in perpetual darkness of night, he stole the skin-wrapped sun, and with his beak released it from the skin: it flew upward, creating daylight.
- By wrestling her, Tuluŋigraq had acquired as wife an uiḷuaqtaq, a 'woman who had refused to marry'.
- He had also harpooned a strange sea-animal: "The animal came up dry. It rose in the water. It was dry land. It was Tikiġaq."