An alternative spelling or variant form referring to shamans or spiritual healers in Arctic indigenous communities, particularly among Inuit peoples.
A variant spelling of 'angakok' reflecting different romanizations of Inuit/Greenlandic language words. The '-ut' ending represents a different phonetic interpretation of the original Inuit morphology.
The many different spellings (angakok, angekkok, angakkuq) show how challenging it was to write down Inuit languages using European alphabets—each explorer and scholar spelled things differently.
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