Sedna, Mother of the Sea — Arctic & Circumpolar (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the far Arctic, to the edge of the frozen sea, for one of the oldest and most important stories the Inuit tell. A young woman who loved the ocean is lost to it in a storm — and instead of vanishing, she sinks to the deep and is remade: from her own hands come the first seals and walruses and whales, and she becomes Sedna, the great Mother of the Sea who sends the animals up to feed her people. A haunting, gentle tale of respect for the ocean.
Inuit tradition, the Arctic (also known as Nuliajuk, Sassuma Arnaa, Arnakuagsak or Nerrivikacross Inuit regions). Sedna, the Mother…
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