In Purgatorio Dante meets the poetAmaut Daniel who is "preparing for holiness by being purged in the flames of his lust" (Ellis 1983: 214), hinting at the already mentioned connection between the sensuous and the mystic experience (Ellis 1983: 210-211).

Among the items I have heard Inuit identify as icons of their culture, three are perhaps most frequently mentioned: inuksuk (an arrangement of boulders often used as a landmark or to direct caribou toward waiting hunters), the amauti (a woman's parka that incorporates anamaut, or baby carrier), and the qayaq (kayak).

D'une part, se trouve un etre feminin bien identifiable par sonamaut caracterise par l'amplitude du bonnet porteur de l'enfant ainsi que par la basse terminaison arriere du vetement (no 3).