因紐特人神話中,平加(Pinga,意為「高高在上之人」[1])是一位狩獵[2]、生育和醫療[3]女神。她也是冥界之神(psychopomp)[4],負責引導新死的靈魂進入地府——亞德里分英語Adlivun(Adlivun)。

參考資料

編輯
  1. ^ Merkur, Daniel. Breath-Soul and Wind Owner: The Many and the One in Inuit Religion. American Indian Quarterly. Summer 1983, 7 (3): 28 [2022-12-13]. (原始內容存檔於2022-12-13). 
  2. ^ Jarich Oosten; Frédéric Laugrand. Representing the “Sea Woman”. Religion and the Arts. 2009, 13: 486. The mistress of the animals of the hunt, Pinga, lives somewhere up in the air or in the sky 
  3. ^ Emily Elisabeth Auger. The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic. McFarland. 2005: 50. ISBN 9780786418886. 
  4. ^ Emily Elisabeth Auger. The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic. McFarland. 2005: 44. ISBN 9780786418886.