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  The odyssey of Kiviuq
The film Kiviuq tells the story of the legendary figure who director Houston said in Inuit oral tradition matches the scope and importance of Homer's Odysseus.
It tells Kiviuq's story, from his near drowning as a child, to his epic journeys and battles.
Kiviuq premieres on APTN on Sunday, Jan. 28.
www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2007-01/jan22_07jh.html   (0 words)

  
  Nunatsiaq News
Kiviuq thought he heard a cough, but it was someone who seemed to have laughed at another's joke.
"Kiviuq then realized that, as with his wife, this was some inhuman thing that had tried — and not quite succeeded — to assume the form of a woman, that he had arrived in some horrible, nightmarish land from which he would be fortunate to escape.
Kiviuq turned away to spare himself recognition of that flesh that he suspected was not of a caribou.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut981031/nvt81030_14.html   (2672 words)

  
  Kiviuq (moon) Information
Kiviuq (kee'-vee-oek or kiv'-ee-ook, IPA /ˈkiːviɔʊk/, /ˈkɪviʊk/) is a natural satellite of Saturn.
Kiviuq (also spelled Keeveeok, Qiviuq or Kivioq) is a legendary and heroic Inuk, a sort of inuit Ulysses.
Kiviuq is about 14 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 11,333 Mm in 450.444 days, at an inclination of 49° to the ecliptic (77° to Saturn's equator), and with an eccentricity of 0.156.
www.bookrags.com /Kiviuq_(moon)   (131 words)

  
  Kiviuq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiviuq (also spelled "Qiviuq," "Kiviuk" and other variants) is the hero of epic stories of the Inuit of the Arctic regions of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.
Kiviuq drifts away in his kayak continuing his adventures and living with people of many foreign lands.
Oral tradition has preserved many versions of the Kiviuq story-cycle, and today, a new generation of Inuit storytellers is bringing the tales to life in written or graphic form.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiviuq   (318 words)

  
 Kiviuq (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiviuq (kee'-vee-oek or kiv'-ee-ook, IPA /ˈkiːviɔʊk/, /ˈkɪviʊk/) is a prograde irregular satellite of Saturn.
Kiviuq (also spelled Keeveeok, Qiviuq or Kivioq) is a legendary and heroic Inuk, a sort of inuit Ulysses.
Kiviuq is about 14 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 11,333 Mm in 450.444 days, at an inclination of 49° to the ecliptic (77° to Saturn's equator), and with an eccentricity of 0.156.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiviuq_(moon)   (166 words)

  
 The Moons of the Solar System — Kiviuq
    Kiviuq is one of the two new satellites that were the first to be discovered after the long period of 19 years that came after the →Voyager-2 fly-by (1981).
Kiviuq was one of the giants in Eskimo mythology.
At pericenter (closest to the planet) Kiviuq is separated from the Saturn a distance of q = 7,455,921 km.
ksiezyce.republika.pl /saturn/kiviuq_en.html   (461 words)

  
 The Legend of Kiviuq
Kiviuq was scared the spirits would try to eat him, so he hid from them in the house of a kindly Old Woman and her two sons.
Kiviuq decided that he did not care, he wanted the woman for his wife, so he stole her feather clothing.
Kiviuq wanted her to eat human food, but she decided that she should be able to eat her own food, so she did.
www.uleth.ca /artgallery/TWAM/vr1/pop-ups/kiviuq.htm   (977 words)

  
 Kiviuq (moon) at AllExperts
Kiviuq (kee'-vee-oek or kiv'-ee-ook, IPA) is a prograde irregular satellite of Saturn.
Kiviuq (also spelled Keeveeok, Qiviuq or Kivioq) is a legendary and heroic Inuk, a sort of inuit Ulysses.
Kiviuq is about 14 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 11,333 Mm in 450.444 days, at an inclination of 49° to the ecliptic (77° to Saturn's equator), and with an eccentricity of 0.156.
en.allexperts.com /e/k/ki/kiviuq_(moon).htm   (275 words)

  
 Érudit | AS v26 n2-3 2002 : Oosten : Kiviuq : une épopée en devenir?1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kiviuq’s position appears to be ambiguous as his adventurous may result in a complete alienation of society as well as in a return to his wives.
Kiviuq doit échapper à quelques esprits auxiliaires de cette femme : deux chenilles et une moule géantes qui menacent de dévorer son kayak.
Kiviuq fit semblant d’être mort tandis que l’ours le traînait vers chez lui et, par moments, il attrapait des branchages pour ralentir la marche de l’ours.
www.erudit.org /revue/as/2002/v26/n2/007049ar.html   (8329 words)

  
 Kiviuq by Director John Houston
Kiviuq lost in the first fog (Lamech Kadloo).
Kiviuq’s face is turning to stone (Lamech Kadloo).
A jealous Wolf Mother (Laila Hansen) prepares to kill daughter Kakak (Jerilyn) Kaniak.
www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca /kiviuq_media/stills_2.html   (0 words)

  
 Inuit Stories and Legends
Kiviuq drifts away in his kayak to a foreign land where he continues to experience adventures and lives with people of many different nationalities.
Kiviuq is scared the spirits will try to eat him, so he hides from them in the house of a kindly old woman and her two sons.
Kiviuq insisted that she eat people food because that is what he hunted.
www.uleth.ca /artgallery/TWAM/vr1/pop-ups/legends.htm   (1980 words)

  
 The Winnipeg Art Gallery - Taking Flight: Shamanic Images of Birds in Inuit Art   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kiviuq was a Ulysses‑like figure who met many strange beings and narrowly escaped threats to his life in his search for his bird-wife and children.
A drawing by her in the exhibition shows Kiviuq riding on a giant salmon to the other side of a lake where he was finally reunited with his family.
Of the approximately 120 artworks in the WAG collection that depict mythic or shamanic human/bird relationships, it is fascinating to see the many ways the subjects are interpreted in sculpture and in graphic art.
www.wag.mb.ca /htmlfiles/EXHIBITIONS/CURRENT_/taking-flight.asp   (566 words)

  
 FILM-Inuit-Legend, Bgt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A cameraman films Lamech Kadloo of Pond Inlet playing the role of Kiviuq in a scene where many of his fellow hunters are drowned while kayaking when a storm comes up.
On a modest set in some old barracks left behind by the American military, Kiviuq is returning to life through a innovative blend of song, dance, drama and movie-making, scheduled for broadcast on APTN sometime late next year.
He says that not only are Kiviuq stories found across the circumpolar world "wherever there are Inuit," they deal in themes and images that resonate everywhere.
www.recorder.ca /cp/Entertainment/051218/e121801A.html   (809 words)

  
 The Moons of the Solar System — Kiviuq   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The moon of Saturn – Kiviuq (XXIV) – was previously temporarily designated as S/2000 S5.
    Kiviuq is one of the two new satellites that were the first to be discovered after the long period of 19 years that came after the →Voyager-2 fly-by (1981).
Kiviuq was one of the giants in Eskimo mythology.
republika.pl /ksiezyce/saturn/kiviuq_en.html   (425 words)

  
 Lesson 3: Inuit legends and stories from oral histories are popular subject matter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A version of the Kiviuq legend and of the sea goddess legend is found in Gallery #3.
Identify Kiviuq and the sea goddess as subject matter in the artworks.
Understand that legends of Kiviuq and the sea goddess were shared orally and that they reinforced Inuit values and traditions.
collections.ic.gc.ca /world/edu/lesson3.htm   (1387 words)

  
 Seven Fires - single post for printer
Film maker, John Houston, is producing a film about the legends of Kiviuk (correctly spelled Kiviuq), a story that he says is on a par with Homers Odyssey.
Kiviuq was a prophet and these stories are his parables."
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 *rAndOm piCks* - Butch-Femme.com
He married her anyway and as time passed, the goose-woman decided she wanted to eat her own foods instead of the caribou and seal meat that her husband liked.
Kiviuq insisted that she eat human food, so the goose-woman gathered her children and flew with them far away, to the south.
He made Kiviuq a large fish to carry him to sea to search for his family.
www.butch-femme.com /portal/forums/showthread.php?t=20487   (1482 words)

  
 Essay: The Hero in Inuit Mythology
Only seldom were all of the stories known to one particular storyteller or to one group or tribe of Inuit, and even more seldom were all of them told during one storytelling occasion.
Although this legend is not as widely spread across the Arctic as the Kiviuq saga, it shall find consideration in this paper as it contains a typical image of a hero: a poor, mistreated orphan, seemingly neglected by fate, who manages to overcome his calamity (Barüske 360).
For the Kiviuq cycle I chose the Greenlandic tale “Giviok” (Tales and Traditions 157-161), which the Danish Hinrich Rink compiled from different versions already in 1866, trying to get at what he understood as the “whole” story.
home.arcor.de /guckyluy/inuit.htm   (680 words)

  
 Vue Weekly : Articles
The stories of Kiviuq vary through the different regions of traditional Inuit territory—from Alaska to Greenland.
His goal in making the film was an attempt to preserve the different myths about Kiviuq, and in turn the myths about the creation of things like sea ice and fog.
Houston sticks to his guns with Kiviuq, keeps to the stories themselves and avoids allowing any overtly political themes to seep through.
www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=6527   (551 words)

  
 Northern Waterways » Inuit Film Odyssey, Kiviuq, to Debut on APTN
Filmed in Iqualiut with a budget of $900,000, Kiviuq features Pond Inlet actor Jason Akoluk and Nunavut drummers, dancers and storytellers: “The film could be a first to have Inuit elders on stage, not just as storytellers, but as actors.
The stories of Kiviuq, the great Inuit Shaman, are a saga that can take a living Inuit storyteller up to seven hours of tell.
“Kiviuq” is brought to life through a variety special featuring all the Inuit arts, honouring the roots of a story that has travelled through the millennia.
www.northernwaterways.com /blog/?p=34   (291 words)

  
 legend
In his journeys Kiviuq he encounters great obstacles such as cannibals, bears, giants, spirits and sea monsters.
Kiviuq tries to reunite with his goose wife and children who live across the sea.
Another legend of Kiviuq tells of his friendship with the grandson of an old woman.
www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/portal/1429/legend.html   (638 words)

  
 .Aponivi.
You've reached the marsh, entitled the Kiviuq Wetlands, east of the mountains and north of the forest.
The water is relatively deep, and therefore difficult for pups to walk in; most of them must swim.
The Cathaal Mountains are north of the grasslands, and lay between the Mannaba Desert and the Kiviuq Wetlands.
www.freewebs.com /aponivi/info.htm   (814 words)

  
 [7.06] Chaos and Effects of Planetary Migration for the Saturnian Satellite Kiviuq   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In this work we will concentrate on the orbital history of the saturnian satellite S/2000 S5 Kiviuq, one of the satellites currently known to be in such a resonance.
Their model, having only one-degree of freedom and not considering gravitational perturbations from other jovian planets, does not allow any chaotic behavior like that noticed in numerical simulations at the separatrix between circulating and librating orbits.
This mechanism is not limited to Kiviuq's region, and could have worked to destabilize any initial population of satellites in the Kozai resonance around Saturn and Jupiter.
www.aas.org /publications/baas/v36n2/dda04/63.htm   (531 words)

  
 Inuit epic tells quite a tale of a rich culture
When storyteller Kira Van Deusen and documentary filmmaker John Houston travelled to 10 communities in the Canadian Arctic in the fall of 2004 to hear different versions of the Inuit epic of the hero Kiviuq, the people who could still tell it were already old.
The tale of Kiviuq, a hunter with extraordinary powers, works on many levels for listeners.
Van Deusen will present the entire Kiviuq story cycle at the Vancouver Storytelling Festival, which runs next Thursday till Sunday (February 1 to 4) at the VanDusen Botanical Garden.
www.straight.com /node/67121/print   (389 words)

  
 Bible of the North   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kept buried for decades, the fantastic tales of Kiviuq, the legendary shaman and wanderer of Inuit mythology,are finally being told
On a modest set in some old barracks left behind by the American military, Kiviuq is returning to life through an innovative blend of song, dance, drama and movie-making, scheduled for broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network late next year.
Not only are Kiviuq stories found across the circumpolar world "wherever there are Inuit," he says, but also they deal in themes and images that resonate everywhere.
www.canada.com /montrealgazette/story.html?id=1aaf014e-add2-4ab1-bec4-cfc54eb179d8&p=1   (583 words)

  
 Kiviuq (Mond) | THG Lexikon
Kiviuq ist einer der kleineren äußeren Monde des Planeten Saturn.
Benannt wurde er nach Kiviuq, einem Riesen aus der Mythologie der Inuit
Kiviuq umkreist Saturn auf einer exzentrischen Bahn in einem mittleren Abstand von 11.365.000 km in rund 449 Tagen und 17 Stunden.
www.thgweb.de /lexikon/Kiviuq_(Mond)   (248 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kiviuq
Astronomical and Physical Characteristics of Saturn Saturn's orbit lies between those of Jupiter and Uranus; its mean distance from the sun is c.886 million mi (1.43 billion km), almost twice that of Jupiter, and its period of revolution is
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kiviuq" at HighBeam.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
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 Textile Museum of Canada
Igah Etoangat wove this tapestry, which is the eighth copy of a total edition of ten.
At last he came to a hut and again a lamp was burning inside.
Every day about the time of low water they carried it to the beach and when the tide came it swam away.
textilemuseum.ca /ex_nuvisavik4.html   (161 words)

  
 Kiviuq: A New Film by Director John Houston
Kiviuq: A New Film by Director John Houston
Reidar Nilsson helping plan Kiviuq at Tuukkaq Theatre, Denmark.
Behind scrim, Kiviuq cleans dirt from the ‘eye’ of the seal bone.
www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca /kiviuq_media/stills.html   (96 words)

  
 INUIT BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Kiviuq is a legendary figure across the North.
The stories of Kiviuq hold Inuit tradition together.
There he finds time to ell Kiviuq stories to his grandchildren.
www.inuitbroadcasting.ca /english/kiviu.html   (794 words)

  
 INUIT BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Kiviuq is a legendary figure across the North.
The stories of Kiviuq hold Inuit tradition together.
There he finds time to ell Kiviuq stories to his grandchildren.
inuitbroadcasting.ca /english/kiviu.html   (794 words)

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