e/Nuliajuk

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has gloss	eng: Nuliajuk is a goddess of the Netsilik Eskimo. According to Rasmussen she lives on the bottom of the sea and controls sea-mammal (seals, walruses, and sea-lions) : whenever humans have neglected to observe ritual prohibitions, she imprisons the sea-mammals within the drip-basin under her lamp (making them unavailable to hunters), so that shamans must conjure her so as to release them. Nuliajuk is co-wife with Isarraitaitsoq : their husband is the sea-scorpion. They have an adopted baby, which they stole "from a sleeping mother when her husband was out hunting at the breathing holes."
lexicalization	eng: Nuliajuk
instance of	(noun) a female deity goddess