SEDNA The sinister sea goddess of the Eskimos, only anAngakoq could withstand her awful one-eyed stare. She had a violent temper, and ruled over the dead. Sedna was the daughter of giant parents, and had a voracious appetite;she oncestarted eating the limbs of her parents as they slept, but they awoke in horror, took her in aboat and cast her into the sea. Even then, she would not let go, and held on to the side of the boat;her father had to cut off her fingers one by one to make her let go. As the severed fingers touched the sea they became whales, seals, and shoals of fish.Sedna rules over Adlivun, which houses the spirits of those who have disobeyed her during life.