Qailertetang
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Qailertetang is an Inuit
female deity who cares for animals, fishers, and hunters, and who controls the weather. She dwells with her companion Sedna
at the bottom of the sea, in the company of seals, whales, and other sea creatures. Qailertetang is depicted as a "large woman of very heavy limbs". In rituals, she is served by a two-spirit
male shaman "dressed in a woman's costume and wearing a mask made of seal-skin".
Inuit
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
female deity who cares for animals, fishers, and hunters, and who controls the weather. She dwells with her companion Sedna
Sedna
Sedna may refer to:*Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea*90377 Sedna, an object in the Sun's far outer Solar System discovered in 2003*Sedna, a native XML database-See also:*Sétna Airt, son of Artrí, son of Éber, son of Ír, son of Míl Espáine...
at the bottom of the sea, in the company of seals, whales, and other sea creatures. Qailertetang is depicted as a "large woman of very heavy limbs". In rituals, she is served by a two-spirit
Two-Spirit
Two-Spirit People , is an English term that emerged in 1990 out of the third annual inter-tribal Native American/First Nations gay/lesbian American conference in Winnipeg. It describes Indigenous North Americans who fulfill one of many mixed gender roles found traditionally among many Native...
male shaman "dressed in a woman's costume and wearing a mask made of seal-skin".