“Little People” Report From Alaska
A recent item in the Anchorage Daily News describes the experience of a small boy who was apparently abducted by small people of local legend, known as the “Ircenrraat”:
City folk usually dismiss ircenrraat as superstition. Those who have lived in Yup’ik country for any period of time tend to be a little more inclined to listen. For one thing, the stories are persistent and often come from respectable observers. For another, when you’re by yourself in the middle of nowhere, things happen that are hard to explain.
We get hassled by the Greys, the Celts are dragged off by fairies, the Maya of the Yucatan are pelted by rocks from the Alux and the Yup’ik are tormented by the Ircenrraat. Of course, we also have things like the Dover Demon.
Is this all just superstitious hogwash, or is there some external source for all of these cultures’ interaction with diminutive humanoids? Perhaps it’s a bit of both, since when we see something we cannot comprhend, our minds tend to fill in the details.
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Jun 03 2008 
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
Now that’s an interesting story; and a particularly provoking part of it is that the hunter who found the boy decided to investigate that area “because of a hunch”.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
The ubiquity of the legends of smaller humanoids suggests that it must be based on something. In every part of the world all human tribes, cultures and civilisations seem to have some such stories. The names, descriptions and behavioural details seem to vary, but that is not unexpected.
On the one hand, the possibility is that pygmy-types were once much more widespread, but through displacement, loss of habitat (such as forest), and other factors survived as a distinct identity only in tropical forests in Africa. However, they seem unlikely to be a source of myths, because “normal” size humans in Africa also had stories of small powerful beings separate and apart from the pygmy of the forest.
The other possibility could be something like the Flores island remains, usually known as the “Hobbit” - these have been interpreted by some to show that a separate bipedal species had developed in parallel to Homo sapiens. So something like that could be one base of the stories.
But whatever the source - one fact remains. All human cultures irrespective of their location and environment have some collective anxiety towards the existence of a smaller separate species - in a similar way to an anxiety to larger bipeds as well (e.g., giants).
It may be a deep-seated retained primeval anxiety towards the existence of the “others”. We, as a species seem very insecure - we want to believe that we are the pinnacle of evolution and the top species of the Earth, but we still have an anxiety about other bipedal “predator” lurking about, as if these posed some real challenge to displace us from our perceived pinnacle or pedestal at the summit of the “pyramid” of our own psychological creation.
I suppose that when the Earth no longer seemed to pose such a threat or challenge, we turned to the sky to seek (and fear) that “other” or better…even if they come from other planets.
In modern times, the perceptions of aliens have encompassed all three major anxieties of “other bidpeds”:
- those who are smaller humanoids;
- those who are larger humanoids; and
- the third one (which I did not mention yet): bipedal reptillianoids…
June 4th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Well today I shared my “living in Alaska for 6 months” experience with an evangelical Christian — so that was kind of a similar alien sighting I guess.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
La Lune,
I couldn’t have said it better!
June 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
RPJ,
Residual disturbance in “the force” perhaps?
June 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Drew,
Did he/ she convert you?
June 4th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Greg: When the fear tactic kicked in with the all-impending question, “Yes, but do you believe a person named Jesus was Christ?” I waffled for a one moment and dodged the Reptilian abduction ray effectively. I was in full-lotus, of course, chomping on garlic, as usual.
Then I spent 3 hours hanging with John Beauchamp, this 83 year old artist, former U of MN Professor, who is a total beat-nik, bohemian radical. Without prompting him he ranted against the Pope, former Nazi; the Baptists, and God knows who else.
Anyway you’d like to know I’m sure that Beauchamp was hanging in a Parisian cafe with William Burroughs in 1962. I’m helping Beauchamp plan a paleo-art trip to the caves in France with stops in primitive art museums at Amsterdam and Paris. The dude rocks.