Amala is a mythological giant of the Tsimshian (Native Americans).
Amala holds up the Earth on a spinning pole behind his back and must balance it. Once a year, a servant applies duck-oil to his muscles to relieve him. The Tsimshian believe that once all the ducks have been hunted to extinction, the servant will not come to apply the duck-oil and the world will fall from the pole and be destroyed.