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Nuliajuk is a goddess of the Netsilik Inuit. According to Rasmussen[1] Nuliajuk lives on the bottom of the sea and controls sea mammals (seals, walruses, and sea lions). Whenever humans neglect to observe ritual prohibitions, she imprisons the sea-mammals within the drip-basin under her lamp (making them unavailable to hunters), so that shamans must conjure her so as to release them.[2] Nuliajuk is co-wife with Isarraitaitsoq; their husband is the scorpionfish god Kanajuk.[3][4] They have an adopted baby, which they stole "from a sleeping mother when her husband was out hunting at the breathing holes".
- ^ 1931, pp. 225-227
- ^ Christopher 2007, p. 37
- ^ "SEDNA/NULIAJUK – SEA GODDESS". Sila UNH. 26 December 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ Christopher, 2007, p. 38