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Lumaaq IV.

from Lumaaq by Arará

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He walked back to camp, following the Inuksuit that his sister had left for him. As he got close to the melting igloos, he saw a polar bear skin stretched out between sticks that had been pushed into the ground. The skin was drying pauktuat. Now he knew that he had been right. He had killed the polar bear. The boy was very angry, so angry that he ripped the polar bear skin to shreds.

Then he noticed some whales in the surf. He grabbed his ipiraq [harpoon line], tied it around his mother’s waist, and prepared to harpoon one of the whales. While he hunted, he sang,

Anaanamma nasaujanga
Qaviujivuq qavirviujivuqLuma,
Luma, Luma, Luma, Lu,Lu,Lu.

While the blind boy was singing, his mother Lumaaq was still tied to the harpoon line. When he shot his harpoon into a whale, the whale pulled Lumaaq over the rocks, off the shore and into the sea. There, she transformed instantly into a whale.

Lumaaq sang a song as she was dragged under the water:

Pikungatuuq pikungatuuq
Pinguattaup qaanganut salumajumut
Aquvillanga Lumaaq !

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from Lumaaq, released October 19, 2015

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