Tuluŋigraq

In the Asatchaq/Lowenstein account preserved in Tikiġaq shamanic narratives, Tuluŋigraq acts at a primordial time when the world was in perpetual darkness. In that narrative he steals the sun — described as skin-wrapped — and with his beak frees it from its wrapping; the sun then flies upward, creating daylight. In related episodes recorded in the same corpus he harpoons a strange sea-animal which comes up dry and becomes dry land identified as Tikiġaq. These origin actions are presented as primeval acts that establish daylight and local landscape.

Attested descriptions are limited and characterize the figure in raven-associated terms. Variant-name glosses render Tulunigraq as "something like a raven" and Tulugaak is called a "raven god" in some summaries; one episode describes him using a beak to release the skin-wrapped sun, implying an avian aspect. A comparative line in one source notes he was "blackened with puiya" in a mythic context, but no standardized anthropomorphic iconography, measurements, or consistent coloration beyond these attestations are provided in the supplied materials.

The primary attested power is cosmogenic: he steals the skin-wrapped sun and, by releasing it, creates daylight. He is also depicted performing transformative landscape action by harpooning a sea-animal that becomes dry land (Tikiġaq). Another narrated episode records that he wrestled and thereby acquired as wife an uiḷuaqtaq (a woman described as having refused to marry). The figure appears in shamanic repertoire and is treated as a powerful mythic agent in Tikiġaq oral histories; summaries also place him in proximity to other sky-deity figures in broader Inuit summaries.