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.
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“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)