| Silap Inua Totem | |
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Origin |
Inuit Tribe |
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Type |
Totem |
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Effects |
Spiritual Awakening and Humbling |
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Downsides |
Dissolution of the mind |
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Activation |
Veneration and wind exposure |
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Collected by |
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Section |
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Aisle |
Cherokee-1278 |
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Shelf |
88812-1278-030 |
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Date of Collection |
April 25, 1947 |
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Origin[]
Silap Inua is the substance everything is made of, the breath of life and means of change in Inuit mythology. As a sky and wind spirit, Sila provides the souls of all life. Extended further, every location, animal, plant or person has their own inua or self-awareness of their existence. Survival in the harsh tundra relies upon respecting all beings as equal, ensuring fair treatment by the spirits of nature.
It was among many of the items stolen from the Inuit people by Robert Peary during his North Pole expedition.
Effects[]
Transfers packets of the user's mind, soul, awareness into other entities. Lichen and saw handles to an entire mountain can be experienced through this spiritual shift. Does not provide any autonomy, just treats them as a passenger to the journeys their pilot must face. Physical processes like weathering and rainstorms can make one feel the constant, often glacial rates at which change occurs. Inhabiting others like caribou or strangers can provide new insights to how another senses their surrounding world, forms their own conclusions. Most users after a turn feel more aware of their cosmic minutiae and gain newfound appreciation of their role in creation.
For each transition to a new host, one feels light and floating almost on unseen currents of air. The more a person learns each time, the more control they relinquish and the smoother their travel. Resisting new experiences with downright hatred leads to dispersal. More of their being splits off into different directions to never be reunited. A flexible adherent can find themselves becoming an entire riverbed, but a rigid person will end up becoming hundreds of pebbles worldwide without any connection to another. The body quickly wastes away into dust, spreading elsewhere by the smallest gust.