"In
East Greenland language, the word for mask is kiappâk (kai:face;
pâk:big). This ‘big face’ sometimes appeared at the winter
house window and
did frighten
both children and they
had masks with them, and when they put them on my breath
shortened, sweat stood on
the brow...I folded my arms to protect my solar
plexus from psychic adults through
translucent seal intestines.
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This
big face is,in my opinion,that
of a mythical being, a cephalopod
also known, for instance, among the Canadian Inuit. This linguistic
confusion was maintained by the Ammassalimiut to protect themselves
from the intransigence of the missionary Rüttel."
