page_title: Angakkuq
hierarchical_section_title: Angakkuq
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Une illustration pour l’article Anguekkok dans le Dictionnaire infernal par Collin de Plancy.
context_page_description: The angakkuq is the intellectual and spiritual figure among the Inuit who corresponds to a medicine man. Other Alaskan Native cultures have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators, although Alaskan Native religion has many forms and variants.
context_section_description: The angakkuq (plural; angakuit, Inuktitut: ᐊᖓᒃᑯᖅ, pl. angakkuit; Inuvialuktun: angatkuq; Greenlandic: angakkoq, pl. angákut) is the intellectual and spiritual figure among the Inuit who corresponds to a medicine man. Other Alaskan Native cultures have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators, although Alaskan Native religion has many forms and variants.
caption: Angakkuq as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 edition.
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