Qɔχsɒ

In Qobsuot mythology, the qɔχsɒʟgɔgɔʀ is a hunter who is swallowed by a whale and retrieved alive by his comrades after the animal is slaughtered. He goes on to become a messiah figure to the Qobsuot people, leading them to sovereignty and freedom.

The word qɔχsɒ(ʟ) has fallen out of currency in the Qobsuot language, and is now only found in two fossilized phrases: qɔχsɒʟgɔgɔʀ, and ɬɲaqɔχsɒ, a deformed whale with vestigial hind limbs. The word is believed to be cognate with Huqqoraz qovsuo, whence qovsuoz, the commonly accepted designation for the Qobsuot people. Though today most Qobsuot prefer to call themselves ɛʀægæɣdɮɜ, or "Brothers-in-Arms," qɔχsɒɣdɮɜ seems to have been an historical term, reinforced, to Huqqoraz ears, by qovsuo, "goblin shark." The term may be a reference to the Qobsuots' facial tattoo tradition, the black linework of which seems to separate the face into a mouth and triangle forehead, like the goblin shark.