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单词 angekok
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Definition of angekok in English:

angekok

nounˈaŋɡəkɒk
  • (among the Inuit of Greenland) a person believed to have magical powers of healing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A similar method is used by the Eskimo angekok.
    • The ordinary person, as already indicated, was not worthy nor able to have direct contact with the spirits, and their relations had to be entrusted to the angekok.
    • Among their visitors was Kingminguse, who had formerly been an Angekok.
    • The elder angekok told Rasmussen: ‘All true wisdom is only to be learned far from the dwellings of men, out in the Great Solitudes.’

Origin

Inuit angakkoq.

 
 
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