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It’s interesting that so many myths must have come from the same ancient culture. In Kinjgseq (a Greenlander story), a man journeys to the underworld and must not eat fruit, or he will never return.

I have concerns about the providence of the writing. Were these translated? If so, it was done in a racist manner. I have doubts these were transcriptions of oral retellings. This is not how anyone would speak. For example, p 112 “so he knows she’s okay and he leaves.” Great. Fine. The “author” knows how to conjugate the present tense. Next sentence “before he go he burn bodies up.” Now no conjugation?

I don’t understand what the words are doing in some of these. Were they translated? If not, some editing might have been useful. Or notes. Or anything helpful from the editor.

“One person said he saw a mood of Owl Old Man cause a snowy owl out of a clump of snow.” (P74)

What am I to make of this sentence?