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75 The Flying Snow Knife after Inugpasugjuk After: When Houses Were Alive, Technicians of the Sacred, 1969 One day in the village, a snow-knife rose up and out the sealskin flap portal in the ceiling and flew, traveling to the top of the ice cap. It was a bright day, and it is said the sun watched the knife cutting the stars, creating half-spirits-of-light. The knife had not yet reached the end of its flight when an anaqtuk shaman begged it to come back to him. It came back, hovering. The sun got upset with the anaqtuk, but the anaqtuk had no goodwill amulet in exchange to the sun for the knife. So he gave him a hunter-Raven’s dead body. The anaqtuk grabbed the ivory knife just in time. The moment the anaqtuk caught the knife, the sun eclipsed with the moon. Raven brings the light. ...

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