I will tell you a story that has been told by the Inuit from long ago and passed on by parents to their children. I myself am not sure what everything in the story means; I can only tell it as I have heard it because I was not there to see the things in the story. Perhaps if I had lived in the long ago and been there, I could be sure I was telling the story correctly.
To understand the story, you must picture how a fish could be big enough to swallow two men who had tied their qajaqs together to make a raft. This way of traveling on water was good for balance to prevent tipping over. When crossing a creek or river it was good to make this kind of raft-like boat.
It is told that these two qajaqs and the men were swallowed all at once by a very big fish.
The big fish lived on this lake and also appeared to a woman who was frightened by it. She was on the shore doing her work alone or perhaps getting water for her camp when suddenly a beautiful looking hill seemed to form in the lake and grow bigger as it came towards her. It was a fish so big that it looked like a hill to her because this is what she thought it must be at first. So huge! This is how I have heard it told. The woman grew afraid and ran away. Something beautiful became something terrible.
I think what she saw must have had a dark color, or shades of gray and black because she was looking at a lake. This could explain why she thought it looked like a hill.