Whenever humans neglect to observe ritual prohibitions, she imprisons the sea-mammals within the drip-basin under her lamp (making them unavailable to hunters), so that shamans must conjure her so as to release them.
[2] Nuliajuk is co-wife with Isarraitaitsoq; their husband is the scorpionfish god Kanajuk.
[3][4] They have an adopted baby, which they stole "from a sleeping mother when her husband was out hunting at the breathing holes".
Nuliajuk just sits on the ocean floor, her long hair flowing, moving back and forth with the tides and the currents.
When you look down into the sea over the side of a boat in summer, you can see her hair, swaying back and forth.
You see, a long time ago, when she was just a girl, Nuliajuk refused to marry; she would take no man for a husband.
One day Nuliajuk’s parents loaded their boat with the few things they had and headed off to another hunting place, hoping for better luck.
No longer able to hold on to the gunwales of the boat, she slipped down to the depths of the sea.