
KUNUK AND AARLUK, THE GREAT KILLER WHALE It was a beautiful morning of spring in Nunavut, the land of the inuik in the north of Canada, when the young person inuk Kunuk and his father the great hunter Ituko went out to the exterior sea, to the hunt for the walruses, in his kayaks. It was a midday, when father and son came to a channel surrounded with big and high icebergs. The whole world knows that it is not possible to hunt by night, because Amarok, the spirit of the wolf, devours the one who dares to do it. Suddenly, Aarluk, the great killer whale, emerged of the water with an enormous jump and looking at them fixedly it returned to submerge in the chill waters. Everything had happened in brief minutes. The two inuik, steeped up to the bones and even not recovered of the surprise, but contentments for preserving his lives, said a prayer to Qailertetang, protective of the fishermen and hunters for having saved them. -Aarluk, there has excused us father. - this way h...