Adlet

Also called Erqigdlit, Erkigdlit, Irqigdlit.

Blood-drinking half-dog people of Inuit tradition, born of a woman and a dog, whose siblings were set adrift and became the strangers from over the sea.

Tradition: Inuit mythology
Region: Arctic (place of origin)
Trait family: The Child-Frighteners
Symbols: Dogs

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Asena Mythical she-wolf ancestor of a people
Tuisto Mythical she-wolf ancestor of a people
Jumbi Blood drain
Mora Blood drain
Mormo Blood drain

Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Dogs is Dog imagery denotes fidelity, vigilance, healing, guardianship, and passage to the dead, but sometimes impurity or demonic danger; heraldic sea-dogs are scaled aquatic hybrids.
why
Ten children come of the match, and their mother divides them: five are dogs, and she sets those adrift in a boat across the water, where they become the ancestors of the strangers who arrive from that direction; the other five are the Adlet, and they remain.

Traits

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Behaviour

Mythical she-wolf ancestor of a people
why
The story is therefore an account of where other peoples came from, told from the inside, and the Adlet are the half of the family that stayed behind and turned dangerous.

Offensive powers

Blood drain
why
They are described from the Labrador and western Hudson Bay coasts, and the same beings are called Erqigdlit by the Inuit of Greenland and Baffin Island — human in the upper body and dog below, and thirsty for blood.

Roles

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