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Sila

Air, Weather, Wind, Cosmos, Reason

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Sila is both the outside atmosphere as well as the internal human powers of reason and intelligence. Sila is often considered a vague and abstract religious force, capable of containing the human soul and also of transforming humans into animals and vice versa.

 

Name Variations: The "master spirit" or mythical ruler of the Air and Weather may more appropriately be called Silaap Inua or, sometimes, Naarjuk, "Big Belly." 

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Wind carved snow drifts outside Pangnirtung in Nunavut, Canada.

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