Maiden
What you need to sow
Begin by making one repair with the person or place you take from.
Inuit / Arctic
Sedna
Mother of the Sea, Mistress of the Animals
Inuit tradition across the Arctic; living tradition
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Her story
Historical context
goddess · Inuit tradition across the Arctic; living tradition
Sedna lives at the bottom of the sea and the animals people hunt come from her. Her story is harsh: thrown from a boat, her fingers cut as she clung to the gunwale, each joint becoming seals, walrus and whales.
Mythology & traditions
Without hands she cannot comb her own hair, and when people break the rules of the hunt her hair tangles with their offences and she withholds the animals. The angakkuq travels down to comb it out. Her whole theology is that harm has to be untangled by someone, patiently, by hand.
Domains
- The sea
- Sea mammals
- Hunting
- Reciprocity
- Consequence
Symbols
- Seal
- Narwhal
- Sea ice
- Long unbraided hair
- Comb
In the oracle
Her guidance
Mother
What you need to grow
Nurture reciprocity. Whatever feeds you needs to be given back to.
Crone
What you need to know
The supply stopped because something was never made right. Go comb it out.