This song is mostly instrumental (with some vocalizations in a made-up “Inuit” language) but the liner notes have a detailed explanation of the meaning of the song:

Since the most important person in the Eskimo community is the hunter, and since hunters are always male, female infants are ritually killed if there is no infant male who will someday need a mate to cook, sew, and chew leather for him. This social condition adds to the drama of birth

The pains were coming in regular intervals and she knew that if she didn’t start moving now, her legs might collapse under her before she could reach the ice cave. The ceremonial band was already playing birth music and the other women sang in an attempt to comfort her. But as her steps carried her toward the ice cave and the ceremonial band’s music became lost in the wind. the true loneliness of her situation loomed even larger in her mind. The gaping mouth of the ice cave eagerly awaited. And although she felt fear, she knew the cave also offered relief from her quickening pains, for this journey had been made many times before

Her pace remained unchanged as she entered the cave, which now enlarged before her and engulfed her in the sweet music of slowly moving ice vibrating within its own crystalline formations. Deeper into the cave she went. The men were playing the kooa and chanting for the birth of a male

Finally she reached the furthest chamber where stood the Angakok. Delivery began immediately as the magic man filled the room with protective prayers. The child was born. The Eskimo woman reached forth with her hand, gently across the already frozen crust on the infant’s belly to feel the child’s sex; the other women came into the chamber singing the song of life and bore the infant away

If a good hunter dies, the other men cut him up and rub the pieces on their spearheads to improve their aim

Bathing is done in urine

Eskimos eat only meat, including rotten walrus, which is said to taste like cheese