This was known to them as the Great Chain of Being. At the top was the Great Spirit, God, and the Silla. The chain in its entirety, represented all degrees of perfection from the highest and fullest, to the lowest and least to be complete. The Inuit believed that the universe was perfect only if all degrees of perfection were represented in it. Being or existing was perfection created and interrelated. The Creator had also made the elementals, the indwelling spirits of the Earth. He thought of Silla,
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