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taakkua sakikkurasangit kamajualuuliq&utik.<br />

inngiqsijuqaqq&uni,<br />

Her various in-laws were in awe. Someone started a chant,<br />

“ukuaqput ukuaqput, irnivuq irnivuq, angmanilingmik<br />

itilingmik usulingmik.”<br />

“Our female in-law has given birth to one with an orifice, one with an anus, one with a<br />

penis.”<br />

sakialua angutauniqsaq tuq&ulalluni, “ittiqsu&&aliritti<br />

usuliqsurlusilu<br />

Her father-in-law yelled out, “Start giving yourselves anuses, give yourselves penises,<br />

uttuliqsurlusilu.”<br />

give yourselves vaginas.”<br />

itiqalaunngittukkut angmaniqtaaqtuqtiqattautisillutik<br />

Those that had been without anuses started giving each other orifices.<br />

naliqquutijaraangamik uumavak&utik. saniqquutijaraangamik<br />

If they stabbed the proper spot they lived, and if they missed (on either side)<br />

tuquvak&utik. angutauningit taqqutivinirulungnik<br />

they would die. The men were trying to get penises using the qulliq<br />

usuktaaqturasuliq&utik. taannattauq siqiniup sakia uingata<br />

wick trimmers. The husband of Siqiniq’s mother-in-law<br />

kapilluniuk saniqquitijarlaalugingmagu tuquvallialiq&uni<br />

uqaqpuq,<br />

stabbed his wife, but he missed. As she was dying, she said,<br />

“uima tuu&&aqpaanga, savuujaminut tuu&&aqpaanga<br />

“My husband stabbed me, with his iglu building knife he stabbed me.<br />

qakugu maminniq qularnaqpa?” tuqullunilu.<br />

Is healing hopeless?” and she died.<br />

176 <strong>Introduction</strong> to the Oral Traditions

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