The Caribou Master, variously known as Kanipinikassikueu, Katipenimitak or Papakashtshishk, is a powerful spirit in traditional Innu an Indigenous people of present day Canada and Quebec. In the myth, an Innu man goes to live with the Caribou. He marries one of the does, and is himself transformed into caribou form. He becomes the master of the caribou, and the provider of caribou for the Innu people.
Famous quotes containing the word master:
“Man was Cadaver’s masker, the harnessing mantle,
Windily master of man was the rotten fathom,
My ghost in his metal neptune
Forged in man’s mineral.
This was the god of beginning in the intricate seawhirl,
And my images roared and rose on heaven’s hill.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)