Sedna

Kyle Wilson

Secretion Myth

            The Sedna Myth is a secretion myth because some of the animals like the Whales, Walruses, Bearded Ground Seals, and Ringed seals were created from Sedna’s bones and skin. “As her bones and flesh fell into the waves, these pieces of her fingers became bearded ground- seals, while her thumbs became walruses.” In the other two Myths animals where also created in this way. At the end of the myth Sedna, her father and dogs fell to the bottom of the sea and Sedna became the ruler of the underworld. She ruled over the animals that where created from her flesh and bone and when the Inuit people are bad and disobey Sedna she tells the animals to go away so they have no food and have to praise her to earn the food back.  “From that day to this, Sedna lives at the bottom of the sea, where she rules over the living and the dead.”