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Sacred ‘Sign Posts’ Of The Inuit People
« on: September 04, 2018, 04:33:22 pm »
Sacred ‘Sign Posts’ Of The Inuit People
AncientPages.com | September 4, 2018

AncientPages.com - The mysterious stone figures known as Inukshuk can be found throughout far northern areas of Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Greenland. Inukshuk (the singular of 'inuksuit') means "in the likeness of a human" (or "that which acts in the capacity of a human") in the Inuit language.

They are man-made stone landmark, with many different meanings, used by the Inuit for communication,  navigation, as a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of worship, drift fences used in hunting or to mark a food storage.

mysterious stone figures known as Inukshuk

The traditional meaning of the Inukshuk is "Someone was here" or "You are on the right path."

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