Nanuuk - Icelandic god of watter and rain

Nanuuk - one of ancient gods known from Norse myhology was supposed to be the one overlooking water element in all states. He was the one bringing heavy rain or blizzards, putting the dew over the plants in the morning as well as taking lives in devastating floods. Because water is considered as a main element in Iceland Nanuuk was worshiped with great respect. Almost every family used to have sculture at home, made from floating lava stone, which was painted with use of natural inks.

 

Nanuuk was symbolized as a young man with tatooed face and deep blue eyes which were, according to old literature, able to shoot frozen drops on others. He was also very handsome with great interest in young women and that is why locals were trying to please him by offering him young daughters. They were chained to the stone outside the village and had to stay there over stormy night while, as people believed, Nanuuk was enjoyng their beauty by transfering himself in to drops of rain.

 

Nanook worshiping slowly disappeard with comming Christianity and became almost forgotten in 15 century. There are only 3 known sculptures left in Icelandic museum of history and maybe few more in personal collections. I got lucky to get photographed one of them :)

 

I hoped you have enjoyed the story, because it is fully fictional. We are tend to believe almost everything we find writen and look at least little bit plausible and by this example I just wanted to remaind you from this threat.

 

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