TORNASUK

TORNASUK

"Besides nameless rites and human sacrifices there were certain queer hereditary rituals addressed to a supreme elder devil or tornasuk; and of this Professor Webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in Roman letters as best he knew how."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu

"Torngarsuk is the chief and most powerful supernatural being in Greenland. He appears in the form of a bear, a one-armed man, or as a grand human creature like one of the fingers of the hand. Torngarsuk is invoked by fishermen and by the Anguekkoks (the medicine men) when one falls ill."

Collin de Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal

"'They don't all agree about his form or aspect. Some say he has no form at all; others describe him as a great bear, or as a great man with one arm, or as small as a finger. He is immortal, but might be killed by the intervention of the god Crepitus."'
Andrew Lang, North American and Mexican Divine Myths

Tornasuk (is) a huge white bear that resides in a cave near 

Ungava Bay in the Hudson Strait."

Sam D. Gill & Irene F. Sullivan, Dictionary Of Native American Mythology

"In Alaska, the wisest of the wise, Tungrangayak, is depicted with his body covered in circles or eyes with which he can see everything: 'My whole body is nothing but eyes...I look in every direction.'"

E. Lot-Falck, Larousse World Mythology