Anguta

Template:Short descriptionAnguta (also called "His Father," Anigut, or Aguta) is the father of the sea goddess Sedna in the Inuit religion.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Status

In certain myths of the Greenlandic Inuit, Anguta is considered the creator god and is the supreme being among Inuit.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In other myths, Anguta is merely a mortal.<ref name="Wardle"/> He is a god of the dead in some myths.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Name

His name, meaning "man with something to cut",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> refers to his mutilating of his daughter which ultimately resulted in her godhood, an act he carried out in both myths.

Function

Anguta is a psychopomp, ferrying souls from the land of the living to the underworld, called Adlivun, where his daughter rules. Those souls must then sleep near him for a year before they go to Qudlivun ("those above us"), where they will enjoy eternal bliss.<ref name="Wardle">Template:Cite journal</ref> In some versions of the myth, only unworthy souls have to stay with Anguta in the land of the dead. In these myths, he pinches the dead to torment them.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• Pinga, another psychopomp in Inuit mythology