Description

At the bottom of the Arctic sea sits a woman with no fingers. Her hair is tangled with the sins of the living, and the animals that sustain an entire people are trapped in it. She has been there for as long as anyone can remember.

Known by dozens of names across the Inuit world, the sea goddess is the figure around whom an entire civilisation's relationship with the ocean was built. Sedna: The Eternal Mother of the Sea traces her story from the ancient cosmology of the Arctic coast through the shamanic journeys made to comb her hair, the colonial campaigns that tried to erase her, and the contemporary artists, filmmakers, and communities keeping her alive today.

Part cultural history, part ecological reckoning, this is the story of a tradition that understood something the modern world is still struggling to learn: the ocean is not a resource. It is a relationship.