Inuit Mythology Submitted Names

These names occur in the mythologies and legends of the Inuit peoples.
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
A'akuluujjusi f Inuit Mythology
A'akuluujjusi is the great creator mother among the Inuit people.
Agloolik m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Agloolik is a spirit that lives underneath the ice and gives aid to fishermen and hunters.
Ahkiyyini m Inuit Mythology
In Eskimo folklore there is a skeleton-ghost named Ahkiyyini. He was always dancing when he was alive, and his skeleton comes back every so often to do a jig that shakes the ground and turns boats over in the river... [more]
Aipaloovik m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Aipaloovik is an evil sea god associated with death and destruction.
Ajuna f Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Variant of Ajut using -na, a Greenlandic suffix indicating a personal name. In Greenlandic mythology, Ajuna is a woman who escapes from her pursuer and becomes the sun.
Ajut f Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Derived from Canadian Arctic ajujuq meaning "runs away". In Greenland mythology Ajut is the name of the woman who flees from her pursuer and becomes the sun.
Akhlut m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Akhlut is a spirit that takes the form of both a wolf and an orca. It is a vicious, dangerous beast. Its tracks can be recognized because they are wolf tracks that lead to and from the ocean.
Aĸigssiaĸ f Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "Ptarmigan chick" in Greenlandic.
Akna f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Akna ("mother") is a goddess of fertility and childbirth. ... [more]
Akycha m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Akycha is a solar deity worshipped in Alaska.
Alignak m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Alignak is a lunar deity and god of weather, water, tides, eclipses and earthquakes.
Amaguq m Inuit Mythology
According to Inuit mythology Amaguq is a trickster and wolf god.
Amarok m Inuit Mythology
Amarok is the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology. It will hunt down and devour anyone foolish enough to hunt alone at night. It is sometimes considered equivalent to the waheela of cryptozoology.
Ángángûjuk m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Archaic spelling of Anngannguujuk (using the old Kleinschmidt orthography).
Anguta m Inuit Mythology
Allegedly means "man with something to cut" (compare Inuktitut ᐊᖑᑦ (angut) meaning "man"). In Inuit mythology this is the name of a god, sometimes considered a psychopomp responsible for conveying the souls of the dead to the underworld, Adlivun, where they must sleep for a year... [more]
Aningâĸ m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "big brother of a girl" in Greenlandic. Aningâĸ is the name of the moon in Greenlandic mythology.
Aningan m Inuit Mythology, Greenlandic
The god of the moon among the Inuit of Greenland. He is called Igaluk by the Inuit of Canada and Alaska.
Anngannguujuk m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Derived from Greenlandic anngak meaning "her brother's child" combined with the suffix -nguujuk meaning "sweet little". (Also compare the Greenlandic kinship terms qangiak/qangiaq "his brother's child" and nuaraluaq and ujoruk, both of which mean "sister's child".) This is the name of a character in a Greenlandic legend which is popular among children.
Anningan m Inuit Mythology
Variant of Aningan. In Greenlandic mythology Anningan is the god of the moon and the brother of Malîna, the sun goddess... [more]
Apanuugak m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Apanuugak is a culture hero who was sometimes depicted as an error-prone warrior who lives to old age and sometimes as a dastardly villain.
Arnaaluk f Inuit Mythology
The spirit name of a group of Inuit from a particular region, meaning "a big woman", a spirit of the woman under the sea. Prominent in Inuit mythology.
Arnakuagsak f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Arnakuagsak, meaning "old woman from the sea," was an Inuit goddess, one of the primary deities of the religion, who was responsible for ensuring the hunters were able to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong.
Arnapkapfaaluk f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
Means "big bad woman". Arnapkapfaaluk was the sea goddess of the Inuit people living in Canada's Coronation Gulf area. Although occupying the equivalent position to Sedna within Inuit mythology, in that she had control of the animals of the seas, she was noticeably different as can be seen by the English translation of her name.
Arnarquagssaq f Inuit Mythology
The Inuit goddess of the sea. According to most versions of the legend Arnarquagssaq, commonly known as Sedna, was once a beautiful mortal woman who became the ruler of Adlivun (the Inuit underworld at the bottom of the sea) after her father threw her out of his kayak into the ocean... [more]
Arnatuk f Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
The name is from the mythological concept of soul or name wandering: arnattartoq: arnattoq/arnappoq meaning "seeks a mother".
Asiaq f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Asiaq is a weather goddess (or, more rarely a god) and was quite frequently invoked by the angakoq for good weather.
Atshen m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Atshen is a cannibalistic spirit.
Aulanerk f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Aulanerk is a friendly sea goddess who rules over the tides, waves and joy.
Aumanil m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Aumanil is a kind and beneficent spirit. Also, it is said that this god lived on land and controlled the movement of the whales.
Eeyeekalduk m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Eeyeekalduk was the god of medicine and good health.
Idliragijenget f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Idliragijenget is the god of the ocean.
Igaluk m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Igaluk is a lunar god. He lusted after his sister, the solar goddess Malina, but she rejected his advances and fled from him. Their eternal chase explains the movement of the sun and the moon through the sky.... [more]
Ignirtoq m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Ignirtoq is a god of light and truth.
Ijaakaaq m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "moon" in Greenlandic. This name is also used in the Inuit Mythology.
Ilasiaq m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "a companion acquired (through magic)" in Greenlandic. This occurs in a legend from the Upernavik region of northern Greenland.
Irdlirvirisissong m & f Inuit Mythology, Inuit
Means "demon cousin of the moon"
Isarraitaitsoq f Inuit Mythology
Etymology unknown. This is the name of the minor wife of the Netsilik Inuit scorpionfish god Kanajuk.
Issitoq m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Issitoq is a deity that punishes those who break taboos. He usually takes the form of a giant flying eye.
Kadlu f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Kadlu refers to either one goddess or three sisters who presided over thunder.
Ka-ha-si m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Ka-Ha-Si was a lazy Inuit boy who was shunned by his tribe for his constant sleeping.
Kaugúnaĸ m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "one who was buried in-between rocks".
Keelut m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Keelut is an evil chthonic spirit who resembles a hairless dog.
Kigatilik m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Kigatilik is a vicious, violent demon, especially known for killing shamans.
Kiviuq m Inuit Mythology
Kiviuq is the hero of epic stories of the Inuit of the Arctic regions of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Kiviuq is an eternal Inuit wanderer.
K'uloĸutsuk m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Archaic spelling of Quloqutsuk (according to the old Kleinschmidt orthography which was used to write Greenlandic until 1973, when orthographic reforms were introduced).
Malina f Inuit Mythology, Greenlandic
In Inuit mythology, Malina is the name of a solar goddess. She is constantly fleeing from her brother, the moon god Igaluk (Inuit) or Anningan (Grenlandic), and their eternal chase explains the movement of the sun and moon through the sky.
Navagiaq m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology, Inupiat
West Greenlandic name meaning "the one who travelled from place to place", composed of nava- meaning "exchange, moving from place to place" and -giaq meaning "travel" or "is out". In Greenlandic mythology this is the name of a character who dies and travels from animal to animal as a spirit until he is finally reborn as a human.
Negafook m New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Negafook is a god of weather systems, particularly wintry cold ones.
Nerrivik f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
The Inuit goddess of the sea and sea animals.
Nootaikok m New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Nootaikok was a god who presided over icebergs and glaciers.
Nujalik f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Nujalik is the goddess of hunting on land. She is the opposite of the goddess of sea, Sedna.
Nuliajuk f Inuit Mythology
Inuit goddess of the sea and sea animals, also known as Sedna.
Paaliaq m Inuit Mythology, Astronomy, Popular Culture
Paaliaq is a satellite of Saturn. It was named after a giant from the Inuit Mythology. This name was used by writer Michael Kusugak for the fictional shaman in the book 'The Curse of the Shaman' (2006).
Pana m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Pana was the god who cared for souls in the underworld (Adlivun) before they were reincarnated.... [more]
Pinga f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
Means "the one who is up on high". Pinga was an Inuit goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld.... [more]
Pukkeenegak f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Pukkeenegak is a goddess of children, pregnancy, childbirth and the making of clothes.
Qaammatip-inua m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "man in the moon". This is the name of a character in Greenlandic mythology.
Qiqirn m & f New World Mythology, Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Qiqirn is a large, bald dog spirit.
Quissik m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Means "urinated on" in Greenlandic. Quissik was the name of a shaman, still remembered in local legends, who acquired that name when foxes in human figure urinated on him.
Quloqutsuk m Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Possibly derived from Kwakiutl Indian quetutsa "sparrow". This is the name of a character in one of Greenland's best known myths.
Sanna ᓴᓐᓇ f Inuit Mythology
Inuktitut form of Sedna.
Sungula f Greenlandic, Inuit Mythology
Greenlandic name meaning "sun". Sungula is the name for the sun in East Greenlandic legends
Takánakapsâluk f Inuit Mythology
Etymology unknown. This is the Igloolik name of Sedna.
Tekkeitsertok m Inuit Mythology
The name of one of the most important hunting gods in the Inuit pantheon. Tekkeitsertok is a god of hunting and the master of caribou.
Tootega f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology the goddess Tootega is a wizened old woman who lives in a stone hut and walks on water.
Tornarsuk m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Tornarsuk is a god of the underworld and head of the protective gods known as the tornat.
Torngasoak m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Torngasoak is a very powerful sky god, one of the more important deities in the Inuit pantheon. Leader of the Tornat.
Tulugaak m Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Tulugaak was the creator of light.
Wentshukumishiteu m & f Inuit Mythology
In Inuit mythology, Wentshukumishiteu is a water-elemental spirit which fiercely protected the young of various animal species from human hunters.