Places of Power
ARCTIC TWILIGHT
Issuhungitok means "an eternity". The summer solstice is such a
time, when the sun shines from day to day without the cover of darkness.
POND INLET BAFFIN ISLAND
Ullusit -- the summer solstice
When I was young,
Every day was as a beginning
Of some new thing,
And every evening ended
With the glow of the next day's dawn.
Inuit poem collected by Rasmussen during the fifth
Thule expedition, 1921-1924
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