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