Western culture's approach on the other hand is to dominate. He didn't have to go to church to be told just how to live. Everyday life was his religion. Although this practical side is at the basis of most aboriginal religions, the unexplainable, the sense of mystery, is ever present as well. Knud Rasmussen asks the old Eskimo shaman Najagneq if he believed in the great power of the universe.
Children hear a soft and gentle voice, almost like that of a woman.
When all is well, Sila sends no message to mankind, but withdraws into his own endless nothingess, apart. So he remains as long as men do not abuse life, but act with reverence towards their daily food. The magic of words to make manifest, to reconstruct the past or create the future, to conjure or destroy.