Sedna

Sedna

            Sedna is a secretion myth becase later in the story she loses her fingers and they become creatures of the sea. Sedna was a daughter of an Inuit man, who was very beautiful, and her father wanted her to be married. Sedna said not to every man her father offered her tough. Bird-man did not like the birds where he lived so he decided he wanted a human wife and set course to Sedna’s homeland. Sedna couldn’t resist Bird-man and the song and promises he gave her. They soon married and Senda found out that all the promises weren’t real and it was a way to win her over. Sedna’s father wanted to visit the newlyweds and see how they were doing. When he arrived he saw that none of the promise were fulfilled as Bird-man had sang in his song, and as soon has Bird-man came home, Sedna’s father killed him for being untruthful and not satisfying his daughter’s needs. The seabirds soon noticed that their friend was killed and they set out to find Sedna and return the favor. Since the birds only wanted Sedna, her father threw her out of the kayak hoping that they wouldn’t kill him too. When Sedna grabbed on to the boat, with dear life, her father cut off her fingers from the first joint and to the middle joint. Her fingernails became whalebones and her flesh became whales as they hit the water. On her next hand grabbing onto the kayak her father cut off her first joint to the middle finger. Once again her bones and flesh changed as it hit the water, but this time they became ringed seals. Her father continued to cut off the rest of her fingers and as they hit the water her fingers became ground-seals and her thumb became walruses. The birds knew Senda wouldn’t live through that and so they left. Sedna got revenge on her father in the night by letting her huskies eat upon the hands and feet of her father. The earth rumbled so bad that they all fell to the bottom of the sea where Sedna is in charge of the living and dead.