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| By King Bumis Heir | Part of the Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan continuity. |
| Juji's fine. He comes back to life in the end when the doomsday device shifts the polarity of the Earth. Oops. Spoiler. Sorry.
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| "It is here and right now that you two follow through with your destinies just as the Mother Bear foresaw. You bring great joy and prosperity to both the Northern and Southern Water Tribes, one where we can be together united." |
| — Anatkuk told both Tanaraq and Tulok in Chapter 19: The Campaign of Two Nations Part 1: Royal Matrimony. |
Anatkuk is a minor character in the fanon Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan. Anatkuk is the spiritual leader of the city's kashim in the Southern Water Tribe.
History[]
Anatkuk is introduced in Chapter 2 of Book 2, as the Southern Water Tribe's spiritual leader. He discloses information to Chief Unirak about the dreams that he's being plagued with my the gods.
Tiandi and Akna have revealed Anatkuk that the war with the kingdoms is imminent, sooner or later the war with the unified Earth Kingdom against the unified Water Tribes will happen in the near future. While they panicked a bit they composed themselves and agreed upon lying to the masses and telling them this next year will be another good one.
Anatkuk's job also consists of predicting the new year when it arrives, a room is overcrowded with the masses. The Spiritual Leader receives visions or dreams the weeks before the New Year Festival and then reveals what the gods offer to the people for the year. Assisting others into prayer, explaining dreams and sometimes even giving advice to others. He receives all gravely ill patients to heal if the city healers fail to do so.
During the new year, the spiritual leader would organize a drum dance. Drum dancing was done by a group of shaman who dressed up and wore face paints or masks and acted out the predictions brought forth by the gods to the elder shaman. Each god is known to have told the elder shaman or seers different things.
Anatkuk's job involves preparing bodies of the dead for burial with a series of traditional rituals that protect the physical body and spirit of the deceased. He studies the body to find the cause of death before the process of rituals begins. The rituals consist of grabbing a vase of oil and massaging the oil onto the body. The oil was a mixture of herbs from the Spirit Oasis and fish blood, grounded animal bones and dried polar leopard liver and an arctic jackal-fox's pelt if the person is a royal. It was known to be the armor they'd wear as they traveled through the path on the way to the Spirit World.
Awhile while the elder would throat sing and the apprentice beat drums while incense burned in the room. All these would protect the body and spirit one way or another. A various number of other rituals were performed as well. Finally, each member was allowed to kiss the cheek of the deceased as a final goodbye.
A Royal Wedding[]
Anatkuk along with the help of Ashuna was appointed the shaman to marry Prince Tulok and Princess Tanaraq. Following the traditional marriage rituals which included the husband and the wife bowing before the statuettes of Tiandi and Akna respectively.
After this was done the couple is given a chalice to which they drink a specially made drink, made of fermented mountain berries, bear berries, and mixed with water. Both the groom and bride will drink from the chalice then will be allowed to kiss each which unites the two in wedlock.
Abilities[]
Anatkuk was born a waterbender and began to study about the gods at the young age of five after his parents were killed in the raids. He was orphaned and then picked up by a childless elder shaman who became his adoptive father. With the purpose the boy now carried he mastered waterbending at eighteen and healing at twenty.
His studies were completed at a younger age however and he remained the apprentice of his adoptive father until he retired in 704 BG. Anatkuk uses waterbending to heal and snowbending for burials of royals. While others are buried in cairns or cremated.
Relatives[]
- Unnamed Adoptive Father (Adoptive Father; Deceased)
Appearances[]
- Chapter 2: The Crew
- Chapter 18: Thirst for Blood
- Chapter 19: The Campaign of Two Nations Part 1: Royal Matrimony
- Chapter 20: The Campaign of Two Nations Part 2: A Divided Nation
Trivia[]
- In the comic Anatkuk remained unnamed and didn't serve a greater purpose to the second subplot of the Book 2.
- Anatkuk means 'shaman' in the Inuit language.
| Preceded by Unknown eventually, Anatkuk's Adoptive Father |
Southern Water Tribe Spiritual Leader 704 BG - 640 BG (64 Years)(BG) |
Succeeded by Unknown |
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