Piqpagi

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Don't worry I'm still writing the story I just need to do a lot more world-building to get it going!

In the meantime I'm going to explain a lot about my people's culture and ancient religion!

In Inuit shamanism, the human's life cycle is closely linked to the life cycle of one's soul and similar to ancient Egypt It is believed that the soul is composed of many different parts such as the names and guarding spirits and even one's sexuality is a part of a soul.

Tarniq (a soul) is made up of the Atiit (the name you were given at Birth)
And the atirusiit (which is kind of like a nickname that you earn through something you did in your life)

For Sherman's, these two things are extremely important for many special reasons including their powers.

Then there was the female or male part of the soul (Angun=male Arnaq=female) sometimes it was possible for someone who was male to have a female soul or somebody that was female to have a male soul or someone that even had both and that is where the term two-spirit comes from.

Many other native cultures have similar beliefs and even similar terms to the two-spirit so most people are familiar with it even if they don't quite understand it but what it basically means is the term for LGBT people.

In many Native American cultures LGBT people we're not only accepted but could even hold special positions in their community and earned special respect and even reverence from the rest of their tribes or people, in fact, some people's even believed that a two-spirit person was gifted from the heavens and meant good luck for their people and also had great magical powers of healing and love and joy.

As such a lot of two-spirit people in history have been shamans and even Chieftains and important leaders.

The term for the entire soul as one is pullaq or (the bubble)  and inside of it is almost like a miniature version of that person that was a representation of the energies of the soul and when someone died that bubble would burst open and those energies would be free to fly to the heavens.

In a lot of Inuit art their kind of represented as glowing little chibi characters and their kind of cute!

Back onto the information...

The Souls of the Dead became the Souls of the ancestors (and sort of like our gods) but meanwhile The Souls of those who are still alive or quite fragile especially the souls of children and women because evil shamans would steal their soul power to gain it all for themselves and it was believed that the souls of The Young and The Souls of the women held more power than those of The Souls of the men or old.

Besides the two-spirit people, women were thought to be some of the most powerful and fearsome shamans, especially after motherhood.

Kakiornerit = traditional Inuit tattoos on the face and the body (like our boi has)

For as long back as we can possibly imagine these tattoos have been very essential to Inuit tradition and culture for many reasons both as a symbol of beauty pride in oneself and family and also as a representation of culture and spiritual power but for a while when Christianity started to take hold of the Inuit people these tattoos were banned and shamed as evil and satanic and many people stopped getting them or even tried to remove them and very painful ways or we're ashamed of them but eventually they started coming back and many people are Reviving them again.

For the most part, it was typically used by women as a symbol of beauty or a family symbol or a symbol of what amount of Shaman power that they had however many two-spirit people and even then also participated in different kinds of these tattoos.

These tattoos can come in many various designs dependent upon the region the person their family and what language they primarily speak for the most part though wall many of them do tend to show many similarities there for the most part pretty unique to each person.

There's mainly three types!

1. Painting on a body with washable paint usually as a celebration or thing to be temporarily there

2. Traditional Inuit tattooing which is permanent and usually done with a special kind of ink and a needle it's quite painful and takes a long time to heal but a lot of people also do it for Spiritual healing to do this permanent hypoallergenic subcutaneous black tattoo-ink is threaded onto a thread and needle which is been stitched through the skin until the Mark has been left.

3. Getting the traditional tattoos done in a tattoo Salon with a tattoo gun.

The Inuit idea of the afterlife is that the Inuit ascend into the sky and become "uvlormiut" ("people of the day") hen the Inuit's souls play special football made out of a walruses skull until they are so happy that the many energies of the different parts of their soul that each have their own unique color burst out from the bubble and create the colors that are the Northern Lights.