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Kalira ([personal profile] kalira) wrote in [personal profile] rthstewart 2019-01-08 04:16 pm (UTC)

Re: Love (Inuit mythology; Sedna)

Oo thanks for looking them up and telling me! Also . . . that's actually fairly different from the only versions of the story I've heard. (Wherein Sedna denies all her suitors and chooses to live with her dog; it usually says chooses to marry the dog instead which I know mythology is like that but it now tends to make me think 'ace'. And the suitors take her out on a boat and try and force her to choose one of them, and when she refuses still they push her off, and chop off her fingers when she clings to the side, etc. same story from there. No mention of her father in that one.)

I think that's part of why I do love Sedna so much even though her story is kind of dreadful, as far as what is done to her - no matter what she was a strong person who refused to be budged and even in death she became a goddess rather than be taken down. And then even as a goddess she's strong and unyielding but not cruel even in retribution after her death.

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