Matching Names
Found 1 matching names:S
| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Salik | W | Salik | |||
| Mythological name. The Western Greenlandic boys name Salik possibly comes from the word: ’saliisoq’ (the cleanser). The name may derive from the shamans spirit journey to the Mother of the Sea, with the purpose of cleansing her hair in order for the animals to return to the hunting grounds. In the beginning of the 80s the artist Keld Hansen published a series of childrens books about a boy named Salik, who lived in Greenland in the 1600s. In that same period, Peter Berliner, a psychologist, did a series of radio programs where the main character was named Salik. Statistics Greenland depicted a rise in the number of boys names immediately after that. | ||||||