Sedna: The Goddess of the Sea & Marine Animals - (Inuit Mythology Explained)
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- Today we take a look at Sedna, the goddess of the sea, marine animals and the underworld in Inuit Mythology.
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Yes Inuit Mythology! Inuit myth is intresting but do very wildly due to the large area and people that the inuit people cover.
The first story I heard of Sedna was that she left her father's house to find food, where she is spotted by a giant bird who kidnaps her and holds her against her will. When her father comes looking for her he finds the bird who says that he is taking Sedna as his wife. Her father demands the return of Sedna or to be payed a dowry price. The bird says no and flies off. Sedna's father then sneaks into the birds home to rescue his daughter (more because the bird would not pay the dowry then for love of his daughter). As the two are escaping the bird gives case and the flapping of his wings is so strong it creates a hurricane. Sedna falls from the Boat as the bird and her father battle. Not wishing to die or give the bird his daughter (again because the bird will not pay him) he cuts off her fingers and she drowns. Her fingers become the whales, seals, and walrus. Sedna goes on to rule the seas and the underworld. Her father is then cursed to guide the dead to her so he must look upon her and be forever raked with guilt at murdering his own daughter.
I remember reading it in that spirit walker books
That's same 1 I knew first
thank you so much! Do you have any source where I can look it up in detail? Is it written in book?
@@c.h.589 I'm sure it is someplace. I wish I could remember the name of the book I first read it, but it's been over 30 years. If I recall correctly it was tails of the frozen north or native myths and ledgeneds or inuit mythology something along those lines
Inuit mythology is definately one of the mythologies very few people know about (including me), which also goes largely for Inuit culture in general. So it is fascinating what they believe in, letting you know that there is so much more than the better known pantheons and myths.
The one I've heard is pretty sad too
Sedna lived with her father, a few days travel from the nearest village. Her mother had died in childbearth and her father struggled with the loss of his wife. Sick of the pity the other villagers gave him he moved with his daughter and set up home far from the prying eyes and pitiful stares.
Over the years, fishermen wouldn't stop by the old man's Hut after a long hunt and in exchange for a warm fire and furskins to sleep on for a night they would give part of their hunt to him for his troubles.
Sedna was warm, kind and had always greeted the hunters affectionately, she had grown to know these men as they had her. She was beautiful and fair, her laughter carried warmth and she always looked so happy, despite what little she and her father had.
As the years went on, Sedna developed into an even more beautiful woman while her father slowly grew old and wary. She worried for him.
One day as Sedna stood on the shore waiting for the boat to dock, she noticed a new figure. It was a new hunter. She looked at him curiously as he clambered out of the boat. The other hunters hugged her and regarded her father affectionately. As they sat down for dinner that night sedna could not help but notice the new hunter leering at her openly. She shivered and did her best to ignore it.
She saw that hunter many times and each time her would leer at her, much like a seal would watch it's prey.
As the time went on, her fathers condition worsened. He was no longer able to get up. He had grown too old. Teary eyed, he spoke softly to his daughter. She would have to leave with the next boat of hunters that passed as he knew his time was near and she couldn't survive on her own.
Sedna wept at the shore the next day as the boat rowed closer. Her heart sank as she noticed that she the boat was full of new huntsmen, she only recognized one. The man that leered at her.
Once he listened to her father her agreed and immediately tied her up with rope. As he boarded the boat with her over his shoulder the men cheered and laughed, ignoring her pleading and cries.
Her took her to his tent that night and raped her. Her screams died on her tongue and her tears froze on her face. The cold winds curled around her heart and she was filled with rage.
When he slept she sat up and noticed a glint in the moonlight. As she approached it she realized it was his hunting knife. She seized the weapon and plunged into his throat, killing him instantly.
The next day the clangers came to his tent, worried when he had not turned up to lead the hunt. When they saw what had happened they tied Sedna up we'd three her into the ocean.
It was so cold, her limbs began to fall off. From her fingers came the seals and fish. From her toes came the plants and rocks. And from Sedna the beautiful and fair came Sedna the goddess of the sea.
I've always loved the bitter tail of Sedna. Also sorry I'm so late with it.
"Wondering what life would be if she had a caring father" XD
Maybe she did and he wasn't able to reach her ...
Millions of us ask that question every day. DADS, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND STOP HURTING YOUR DAUGHTERS! 😢
If you guys like the story of Sedna or other Inuit mythology, you should watch The Terror, it covers many Inuit beliefs and practices. It's an awesome show.
Or read the book its even better lol.
Ikr. Immediately what I thot of, learnt it from.
@@LM-qv7cy it's currently on Hulu or you can rent it on Amazon. The book is great too like the guys above so graciously mentioned
Thank you I'm always watching shows like this I'm almost done with Grimm needed a new one to start thank you so much
Cant tell if i love these videos because of the lore or his voice...
HexicWaste55 its both
EXACTLY my thought! :D
Same
He's a mush mouth who mumbles and talks too quickly. I almost gave up on this video because of the way he speaks.
I like how he is more enthusiastic not just so serious
The story I heared (I grew up around Inuit tribes), was that a Raven was lonely since none of the other ravens were good enough for him. He decides to get a human bride. He comes across a village where he sees Sedna. Sedna has rejected many hunters because they weren’t worthy of her. He raven, disguised as a human, calls for her. She ignores at first, then he sings and she goes to him. In this story, Sedna had brothers. And while she was gone, happily living with the raven, her brothers were starving. They go to see their sister and ask her to come back. As they travel, Sedna discovers that she married a raven and was upset. While the raven was gone, she saw her brothers and immediately left with them to go back home. The raven noticed her missing. Furious, he tracks her down and causes a storm. Fearing for their lives, the brothers toss her overboard. She tries to climb in, but they use their oars to beat off her fingers, which become all form of sea life. Sedna, abandoned by her brothers, becomes a spirit and has her brothers starve because of their betrayal. To be in Sedna’s good graces, the medicine man would go into a deep meditative like sleep to become a spirit and braid Sedna’s hair for her since she has no fingers.
I used to know the song that was sung to honer Sedna, but it’s been so long I forgot it.
this mythology is so important to everyone right now..because the asteroid Sedna..is and has been aligned astrologically with fixed star Algol (the demon star).. Algol is basically about the pain of incarnation into illusion and loss of memory. (Medusa (beautiful , wise , mortal) was raped (penetrated) by Neptune (illusion of the matrix world)..where she forgets who she is..loses her place in the temple of Athena..and Medusa turns against herself..with self loathing (symbolized by the snakes)...and then she is hunted for no apparent reason..or for a petty reason..and she is beheaded.
This is the energy of Algol.
Sedna is about...being lost in the Matrix and being persecuted ...but eventually she accepts and loves her situation at the bottom of the ocean, she realizes that she is not isolated but that she was the ocean...itself. She realized that she was the whole...
So the moral of Sedna's story..is no matter how badly you are treated or excluded...you can find the beauty of your situation if you realize that are in harmony with the ocean matrix.
Beautifully said my friend! 👏😊
I don't recall any gods making good parents, most seem to eat, kill and torment their offspring or banish them to an Underworld for all eternity.
A movie called The legend of sarila features Sedna and other Inuit myths
Good video on Sedna can you do more Inuit mythology or Aztec mythology
What she said but just all mythology cause you are the best channel for this stuff.
Yes! I think a Xipe Totec vid would be interesting.
Could you do one about Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire?
someone must has upset her this year
Dominic Lynch Yes kkkk
Or Maui!!!
Definitely and more! I love Hawaiian mythology 💖
No way, this myth was the basis of an SCP? Huh. That’s crazy.
Krov Malenkov oh yeah now i remember that thanks for reminding me
And Lord Bung did an animation on it
I think quite a few SCPs are based off of mythologies featured on this channel
And the award for deadbeat dad goes to....
Bruce Willis
Sorry that award already went to Trump.
zeus
Stannis?
roose bolton
Daughter Hungry? Throw her to the sea
Wanna marry someone else? Throw her to the sea
Just don't like her? Drown her, that will really get the point across.
Father Hungry? You already what to do pops.
That was the moral i from this myth
Hands down the best mythology channel on CZcams. You by far have the best voice ever. Keep on plugging at your channel and do some voice over stuff for anything really that you can get your hands on cause you got that smooth sexy voice and everyone needs to hear it.
Singer Heather Dale has a wonderful song about this goddess, simply called "Sedna". It's how I first heard of her story. Personally, I see Sedna as a goddess who represents finding goodness in life even if circumstances haven't been ideal. She was thrown into the sea even though she did nothing wrong, but she didn't let that embitter her. Instead, she still found the need for companionship in her heart and thus created her children, the creatures of the sea.
This is such a beautiful interpretation! Never thought about her story that way.
Please do a video about Camulus, the Celtic god of war!
yes go celtic myths :)
G.H.ChristoFascist
Was it Not Camulos how gave King Arthus City Camelot her Name?
That is one interpretation of the name.
I first heard this myth from reading the book The Fire Eternal, by Chris D’Lacey. He recounts the story like the third one here, where Sedna was given away as a bride to a hunter, who later turned out to be a raven, because the father was old and hungry and could not bunt. The father then tried to rescue his daughter, but as the raven pursued them, he pushed her off into the ocean. As she tried to swim to the kayak, and climb aboard, the father then struck her frozen fingers with his paddle, which broke off and turned into sea animals, and Sedna drowned, it did not perish. She turned into the sea goddess and waged violent storms amongst man.
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Hey I just want to say thank you for making these videos. I started watching a little bit ago and ive lerand a lot. Thank you and be yourself
I’m enjoying you jumping around from different mythology going over their Gods keep it up please.
It's good to see that someone made a video about one aspect of Inuit mythology, though there are few more I can think of. The legends of Mahaha, the Giants, little people, Nanujuaq (giant bear), Qallupilluk (child snatcher), a disembodied hand, phantoms/shadow people, how the snowy owl got its' spots and the raven its' black feathers, the cycle of sun and moon, getting your head chopped off and having it being used as a ball when you whistle at the northern lights, and many more. I'm not an expert on my cultures' mythology but they're certainly interesting to listen about them.
Keep making videos, bud. I love learning about the myths of different cultures.
yo mythology & fiction explained I love your uploads of posting different mythologies, it helps me to learn all different cultures so thank you for always uploading, first of I haven't seen all different mythologies, second I never knew about inuit mythology
I've noticed that you've recently added humor when required to your videos, I like it 👍👍
Now someone is going to make a parody song of under the sea from little mermaid by putting one of the stories of sedna in the song
True
Cutting off someone's fingers is an act with a profound place in Inuit culture, since without your fingers you cannot work, you become a burden to your tribe. Long ago I recall I once saw a movie depicting an eskimo couple. In it when they are attacked by another man and forced kill the attacker they mention that they must cut off his fingers and stuff the fingers into his mouth to prevent his spirit from leaving the dead body and coming after them for revenge and they must leave the area. Later on when they have a baby the father who is a kind but simple man and doesn't know anything about children sees that the newborn baby doesn't have any teeth, which is a natural thing. He gets so frightened of this that he demands his wife to take the the baby out at the snow and stuff his mouth full with snow and they run away from the baby because it must be a monster. Luckly it doesn't happen at the end.
So basically, those who did it were as monstrous as the Ottomans. Because that's pretty much the point of mutilation in Shariah: to humiliate someone by making them useless.
Really love your videos they are amazing thank you for the uploads.
Beautiful man, keep up the great work
Now that is a chiller. How parents could be that insensitive I'll never know.
Thank you so much for the upload :)
I'm glad I found this channel, great video thank you for the information.
We found the third child of Kratos
I loved this story. Thank you!
Another vid! Much love, Myth 😘 I think I'll sleep extra well this morning 😝
Most hilarious one yet!!!!!
I'm binge-watching 🙈
I remember hearing the second version of Sedna's story. Great video, btw ;)
Loving the humor bro keep it up
I know this story since i am an Inuit, you should do more of these they are great
I loved this and could you do more Inuit myths? It is something that isn’t touched on at all in schools and I think it would be up to learn about their pantheon
Thanks amazing as usual
Awesome❤️
Good video
I love how you're putting more jokes in the videos. Keep up the great work!
Your more lively and funny now which is really entertaining, keep it up m8
Awesome....
How
One of my fav stories!
Sedna was the villain in the Inuit kid show that would air during my childhood. The protagonist was a young Inuit who could speak to animals if I'm not mistaken.
Emy Pierre-Louis inuk u think it was called, old times if you ask me
Yup thats right.
More Hawaii myths pls
I remember the first story!! One of my teachers used to tell us all kinds of mythological stories when we were in elementary school (not a lot of people liked some of them though).
Hey thank you for the video loved it can you do more Greek mythology myths please
Oh my stars! Keep doing alaskan mythology, I suggest ameroq and kushdaakáa/kushtaka. Or sisiutl
You actually have a good sense of humour that you don't use too often. Don't overdo it obviously but I liked hearing your witticisms about Sedna.
Lord Bung did an animation on her Scp!
honestly she's a very cool mythological figure
I suggest researching the Navajo myth of pine nuts. I had a classmate tell me a several stories that they grew up hearing and the pine nut story is the most memorable.
Well well well😊 finally you have a interested in my culture.
If you ever do another Inuit video could you do Nanuk the master of bears :D
I first heard of sedna in a mythology book in middle school
In the story the bird spirit described as a kestral who used lots of tricks to woo sedna none worked until he shape shifted to ask for sednas hand this time she accepted
On the way to the kestral's Island he lost control of his human form revealing his bird nature sedna not wanting to marry a bird demanded her father turn the kayak around
Enraged at sedna for rejecting him again the kestral summoned a storm to drown sedna and her father. When the kayak flipped the father pulled himself onto the kayak but sedna was to far away sedna was able to get above water only for the kestral to land on her head demanding sedna be his wife again she refused
This time the kestral pecked out sednas eyes, when sedna blinding swated at the kestral he bit off her fingers then then the fingers bits became seals, sea lions, walruses, and in this case her legs and arms became whales
Rick Riordan actually referenced Inuit mythology in Son of Neptune. Maybe that or Japanese Mythology will be his next big mythology series.
i hope he dose Inuit mythology in pjo as it is in america and seeing how they recat to strange gods in america
Ugh. I love him.
It was Norse mythology. The way he does his stories are by which myths he enjoys, so if someone sends him a book of Inuit myths and he enjoys them he may write a series.
Honestly I'd like to see Filipino myth(visayan and tagalog) in the Riordanverse.
I remember him mentioning Raven and Bear in Alaska, but I’m not sure those are Inuit gods
Nice i like i love
YES YES YES!~ thank you
SMARTLY HILARIOUS:)
Nice info.
Could you try on couple dozen myth and belief in Asia by focusing on one myth at the time. Love your research on this story, which hard to come by. BTW keep up the good work.
Great job with Sedna, wonder what else the Inuits have to offer? Also how about some Canaanite mythology?
Hey, do you think you’d be able to do a story about the Nuckelavee?
That was pretty dark. I love these types of videos but I would really like it if you made a video on another Greek titan or a video about Gaia and Ouranos
Can you please do Adrestia!
Will there be more videos on Native American myths?
this seems like it was the inspiration for SCP-1836
has anyone else seen the Confinement video (Based on SCP Containment Breach) that features Sedna and an SCP?
Could you do the Amarok wolf of Inuit mythology?
There was a version on Britannica's Tales from Around the World. In the version they had, Sedna was living in a village with her father, there wasn't much to eat. A hunter, who was a bird spirit came to propose to her, changed into a bird, took her to the island of birds. Her father eventually came to get her, was traveling when the bird spirit caused the waters to become rough and her father tossed her overboard. Animals start coming from her fingers and her father was brought down by her animals to see her.
I actually find this very interesting
I love the sarcasm in this video
could you do some more Inuit mythology, like the story of Akhlut?
I resonante and relate to this legend on so many levels ...she refuses to be a victim in circumstances that would break most she thrives I could go on and on its fascinating ✨💖🙏
Please give me more Inuit mythology material!
Maybe a little off, yet the tale of Tiamat can shed a little light for Sedna. Wishing you can look into lore of Tiamat.
Sedna also features in the novel (and TV show) The Terror
I've heard about Sedna before, but never the bird deity variation or being an orphan. I believe it was the 1st story I remember hearing about.
Can you talk about the Tuunbaq,i am not entirly sure if that is truly part of inuint religion,but if it is can you talk about it?great video.
Now that's really bad dad for you 😕 is that where we get the turm "sink or swim" from do you think?? 😕 marvellous vid as always by the way 😊😊
Several years ago I saw a version in a book in which Sedna's father didn't cut her fingers off, but he used a paddle to beat her hands which were holding onto the canoe and her fingers still fall off.
Sedna's Stories the most of METAL story I've heard in awhile
Can you do dembala
She's very prominent in the book Spirit Wrestler. It's a book about an anagunkin( I don't think I'm spelling it right), We have other stories about ten legged polar bears, and Iminaruks and tall people.
Dude, i love this channel and am glad you've made it to native american mythos. Dig it! Are you familiar with India and the awesome beings and divinities found in the Vedas(certain upanishads)/Mahabharata? And what of the fantastical Ashura and other potential births/existences spoken of in the Bardo Thadol (Tibetan book of the science of death) ? Or will these be found in your upcoming book???
Another question, sorry ;) have you covered the demons and gods spoken of in the Epic of Gilgamesh? You guys are very informative and love your work and im sure ya got a lot on your plate. But keep it coming and stay strong, love the channel 🍻
(Sedna Brittanicas tales from around the world) was the first I saw as a kid. It's meant for kids but seems to impliment components from several versions.
very interesting. Where did you hear or find the story for the third/fourth one? I heard one very similar from a instagram star but she said the raven was a shapeshifter and inuit people don't like shapeshifters.
Mafe, I like this channel more now that you’ve revealed this snarky side.
She and her story is featured in the book Icefire of The Last Dragon Chronicles.
Okay yeah, the second you mentioned her dad cutting her fingers off, I realized that this girl is an SCP (SCP-1836, the one with the iceberg and all the prehistoric whales) & there was an episode of "Containment" all about her ("the Girl in the Iceberg").
I hadn't hears this one but it did remind me of a myth about an Inuit woman who married a dog and gave birth to 10 kids. Five were dogs and five were Adlets(dog men) Her father kills the dog-husband and the daughter sends her kids to gnaw off the dad's feet and hands. He then takes her out in his boat, throws her off and cuts her fingers when she tries to hold on. This fingers turn into seals and whales. She then send her children away. The Adlets go inland and the dogs are sent across the sea in a boat. They become the ancestors of white people. I have a feeling that last part may be a late addition to the tale.
I don't know of a book. I read it years ago on some mythology website which I can't seem to find now. It's also on Wikipedia. Search for "Adlet"
No thanks
a dwarf planet is named after her.
Has La Llorona been done?
La Yorona
Mad Pariah yea it's a good video
I read that the tale of Sedna's fingers helps remember to preserve the Arctic ecosystem because otherwise, she will spread her dark hair like a web and gather all the seals and whales, depriving the Inuit of their source of food; so it is a reminder to keep her (aka nature) happy so both can benefit
Hahaha “wondering what it would be like to have a caring father” 😂😂😂
this story makes me think of the 4th episode of the CZcams animated series Confinement. that episode had a girl in a ice berg with no fingers that could control under sea creature that character might have been Lord Bung the animator of Confinement take on Sedna, or it was just quiescence.
I think Sassuma Arnaa (Lady of the Deep/from down there) is the Greenlandic version of Sedna, but the most common story I heard as I grew up there, was the story of how Sassuma Arnaa's was filled with all the trash that humans threw in the ocean, because of this she stopped sending animals for the humans to hunt. Until two children get trapped on the ice and they meet Sassuma Arnaa, the girl then combs her hair and all the trash that she removes from her hair is transformed into huntable animals...There was a movie about this story in Greenlandic too...
What's that movie name👀
I've read about her in a book somewhere. Can't remember where.