Inua

The supplied sources do not record a discrete cosmogonic origin story for inua. Instead, inua is described conceptually: it is the vital force representing 'a chain or continuum of all the individual spirits of that genus which had lived, were living, or were to live.' This positions inua within Inuit cosmology as a standing, relational quality rather than as an entity produced at a single point of creation; it functions across temporal depths to connect members of a kind (humans, particular animal species, lakes, mountains, plants) through shared spirit-vitality (Source 1).

The provided material does not offer a consistent physical or anthropomorphic depiction of inua. Rather than an embodied being with set visual traits, inua is treated as an impersonal or supra-individual vital force that inheres in classes of beings and places. The sources emphasize its ontological status as a shared spirit-quality across a genus rather than a describable visible form (Source 1).

Sources characterize inua primarily in ontological terms: as the sustaining or animating continuity binding members of a genus across time (those that have lived, those living now, and those yet to live). The supplied material does not attribute specific agentive powers (such as speaking, cursing, or healing) to inua; its role is conceptual—grounding personhood and spiritual continuity in humans, animals, and landscape features—rather than describing discrete active behaviors (Source 1).