Inuit
Adlet
Origin: Inuit (Native Americans of Greenland)
Pronounced:
Name Meaning:The Stripped ones
A race of creatures in the Inuit mythology of Greenland. The word usually refers to the island tribes but it also refers to a tribe w/ dog legs and human bodies. known to run quickly and usually encounter between men ended in battle with man being the victor. They were always in conflict with men and were taller than the average human, and believed to be cannibals.
Legend: A woman who lived with her father refused to marry. After she refused all suitors she marries a dog, ijirgang, With red and white spots. Of their 10 children 5 are dogs while the other half are Adlet. The father dog does not hunt, so the woman's father has to provide for them all. Finally the father puts them all on an island and tells the dog to come every day for meat. When he does the woman gives him boots to wear around his neck to carry it in. Instead the father fills them with rocks and drowns the dog.
In revenge the mother sends dog children to gnaw on his hands and feet, so the father kicks her overboard when she is on his boat. as she clings to the side of the boat, the father cuts off her fingers which fall into the ocean and create whales and seals. The woman scared that her father would kill her children she sends them inland where they prosper. believed to be European ancestors.
Origin: Inuit (Native Americans of Greenland)
Pronounced:
Name Meaning:The Stripped ones
A race of creatures in the Inuit mythology of Greenland. The word usually refers to the island tribes but it also refers to a tribe w/ dog legs and human bodies. known to run quickly and usually encounter between men ended in battle with man being the victor. They were always in conflict with men and were taller than the average human, and believed to be cannibals.
Legend: A woman who lived with her father refused to marry. After she refused all suitors she marries a dog, ijirgang, With red and white spots. Of their 10 children 5 are dogs while the other half are Adlet. The father dog does not hunt, so the woman's father has to provide for them all. Finally the father puts them all on an island and tells the dog to come every day for meat. When he does the woman gives him boots to wear around his neck to carry it in. Instead the father fills them with rocks and drowns the dog.
In revenge the mother sends dog children to gnaw on his hands and feet, so the father kicks her overboard when she is on his boat. as she clings to the side of the boat, the father cuts off her fingers which fall into the ocean and create whales and seals. The woman scared that her father would kill her children she sends them inland where they prosper. believed to be European ancestors.