Sedna (mythology)

Sedna ( Inuktitut: ᓴᓐᓇ, Sanna ) is a sea goddess of the Inuit.

Mythology

Sedna was worshiped as the Ancient Seas, Queen of the depth and the mother of all storms and sea creatures. Sedna certain about which and how many marine animals could be caught and eaten. Violated the people against their bid, then she sent a storm or pulled the hunter and his family in depth.

The legend says that Sedna a beautiful but vain girl was that dismissed all of their applicants. Finally, she gave her father against her will a hunter for his wife, although he wore his face veiled. When the husband Sedna had brought into his home with the kayak, it turned out that he was a raven and her home should be hard cliffs. She cried and screamed into the wind until her father heard it, felt guilty and took it back.

On the way back from the kayak Sedna's husband was attacked, which caused violent storms at sea with its wing beats. Sedna's father got scared and threw his daughter overboard. Sedna tried to cling to the kayak, but the father hit her with the paddle on the frozen fingers and hands until it shattered and drowned in the ocean. Sedna's fingers were transformed by the magic of the Ravens in their hands and seals to whales and other marine mammals. Sedna finally sank himself into the sea, and still sits there today on the seabed. Her anger at the people whipped the sea from time to time in violent storms and waves. In anger over the betrayal she became a powerful angry goddess.

Therefore, they had to be treated with respect and shamans had to dive down to her to comb her long black hair. That calmed Sedna and it allowed people to feed on the riches of the sea. Therefore, it was the custom in the north, a captive seal water to drip into the mouth as a gesture of thanks to Sedna, which feeds the hunter and his family.