Sedna, Mother of the Sea

Inuit myth · c. 1700 CE · Myth / Legend · Inuit · Enlightenment

An Inuit girl who refuses every suitor is finally married off to a stranger who proves to be a bird in human form, and her father comes by boat to take her home. When the storm rises he has to decide what the boat can carry. The sea's bounty born of betrayal.

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• shares sources with ↑ Kiviuq
  Inuit myth · c. 1700 CE · Myth / Legend

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