OK, I was thinking that writing the real legend of Sedna wouldn't be too bad, so now in this chapter I put it.
I know that this story isn't too great, but I am trying to do better even if it is a bit difficult and you would be helping me greatly if you wrote some constructive criticism (clearly if you have the time).
Thanks to Dazzy Dizzie for encouraging me to write something, I wouldn't have been able to do it without you.
Author note: I don't know how I can answer to the review, so until I can I will do it at the end of the chapter.
Sedna
Sedna or in indigenous languages Nuliajuk or Sanna, is a girl who does not want to get married. Sedna lives with her parents, rejecting every suitor who propone to her.
One day to the family comes a strange man who promises her wealth and ease,and anything else if she became his wife. Featuring some mysterious art that reinforces his persuasive arguments, the man convinces Sedna's parents.
The girl bride and her husband travel toward his land.
But once she gets into the new house she discovers that the human appearance was merely a disguise: the man is a spirit-petrel, ruler of a gray and rough place, where the food is reduced to raw fish.
After some time the parents come to visit. Tired of this existence dull and not at all wealthy, Sedna reveals the nature of her husband and pleads with them to bring her away with them, furtively, on the kayak.
When she is in the center of the water, however, the spirit returns and finds the escape and the deceit. And so the abandoned spirit unleash a storm. To placate him is necessary to throw Sedna overboard.
In some versions, is the father of his willingness to do so, in others he is forced by some comrades who escort them, in others are directly the latter. In a collection in the form of a poem of Knud Rasmussen, Nuliajuk is instead an orphan abandoned to the waters from her people in time of famine.
In each of the stories she resists, clinging to the edge of the kayak. The father or the rowers or someone else, then cut away her upper phalanges. In this heinous scenario, when salvation has the best on family ties, the transformation takes place. The phalanges of the bloody girl turn into gray seals, walruses and whales, just when they touch the surface of the sea.
Sedna, swallowed by the waves, does not die, but becomes the Lady of the Seals or the Mother of All Marine Mammals that live in a house of stones and ribs of a whale placed on the ocean floor.
Nuliajuk floated to the bottom of the ocean
where she became the Mother of the Sea
and Lady of All the Beasts of the sea and of the land.
She lives down there in the house under the waters
and knows everything we do,
and punishes us when we break the rules
hiding animals. So the hunt goes wrong
and the people are hungry. That's why she
is the most feared of the gods.
Nuliajuk gave the seals to humanity, it is true,
but she is no friend of the people
because they had no pity of her when she lived on earth,
throwing her into the ocean to drown.
Where the human lacks compassion, there the nature speaks and everything finds its reason.
Yet, without the human want of killing and rebel, who sews his crimes and his redemption in a web of legends, we could not recognize the right of nature's violence.
When on earth there is no food it means that the nature is angry with the humanity, seals do not allow themselves to be caught and everything is sterile.
Then the shaman must go down into the sea through narrow passageways, past the angry hiss of invisible animals, to reach the home of Sedna and ask for forgiveness combing her long hair that are full of nodes: each node is a wrong that the man has inflicted, and a rule of life that has been broken.
There was the real legend of Sedna, I hope now will be more simple to understand the angst.
Thanks to Meadow Melody for reviewing my story, I hope you liked this chapter.
