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Qalupalik (The Sea Creature That Takes Children)

Far in the frozen North, where the sea is hidden beneath sheets of ice and the wind sings through the snow, there are stories that the people of the Arctic tell their children to keep them safe. Among the most chilling of these tales is that of the Qalupalik, a creature that waits beneath the water, watching and listening for
Kiviuq, the Inuit hero, standing on Arctic ice beneath the northern lights, holding his paddle as he journeys onward

Kiviuq (The Eternal Wanderer Hero)

In the farthest reaches of the Arctic, where the land meets the frozen sea and the wind never truly rests, there lives a legend that has been told for countless generations. It is the story of Kiviuq, the eternal wanderer, the man who journeyed farther than any other and lived

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