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Inuit mythology Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and parts of Siberia. Their religion shares many similarities with some A ...
, Issitoq (also Isitoq) is a deity that punishes those who break
taboo A taboo is a social group's ban, prohibition or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred or allowed only for certain people.''Encyclopædia Britannica ...
s. He usually takes the form of a giant flying eye. Rasmussen, K. (1929) Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos.


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