DLA 2017- Mythical Canadian Monsters - Adlet Traditional Cache
DLA 2017- Mythical Canadian Monsters - Adlet
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This Geocache is among many being hidden for Discover L&A Mega Event taking place on August 19th, 2017. All DLA2017 Geocaches will be published on August 15th, 2017 to allow time for non-locals to build PQ's and routes. DLA2017 participants are encouraged to wait till 9am on the day of the event to start finding them.
Adlets are another Inuit invention—they’re human people with dog’s legs, who can run fast like dogs, and are said to be the product of a union between a woman and a giant dog. When this legendary woman birthed 10 puppies, she let five of them run across the ice, which, the story goes, became the original Europeans. The five that stayed behind became abominations and spent their time infighting and wandering the tundra, searching for Inuit villages to feast upon. Ethnologist Franz Boas recorded several native tales about adlets while traveling in Baffin Island and published them in 1889. Correlations were made to other cultures’ stories of half-human/half-dog creatures, including those of the Dakelh tribe of British Columbia and the indigenous Chukchi people in Siberia.
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