Aua (angakkuq)
Aua (also transcribed Awa and Ava) (circa 1870,
Inuit mythology at a time when it was being subsumed by the introduction of Christianity. Aua told the story of his cousin's mother Uvavnuk
, whose song "The Great Earth" is still popular.
Aua was married to Orulo and they had four children.[2][3]
His encounters with the Danish explorer were fictionalised in the 2006 film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, by the Inuit team who had produced Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Sources
- ISBN 9780802077172. Pg 21.
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