The Great Sea has set me
In motion
Set me adrift
And I move as a weed in the river.
The arch of sky
And mightiness of storms
Encompasses me,
And I am left
Trembling with joy.
...INUIT Poem
ORCA is the biggest, baddest mass of all in the vast universe of the sea. Think SATURN ya'll. Inuit Indian culture has been based on whale hunting for thousands of years. The kill of a single whale provides tons of meat for an Inuit community (subsistence whaling). SEDNA is the Inuit goddess of the sea. There are many versions of the myth of SEDNA, but their commonality is in her ultimate release of mammals to allow the Inuit to eat from the bounty of the sea. Hunters have great respect for her (they betta, 'cause she'll eat'em).
ORCA's numbers (as well as other whales, fish, porpoises, dolphins, seals, sea turtles, alligators, oysters [pearls], sea horses, crustaceans and mermaids) have diminished at a frightening rate during the past century as a result of man's over-fishing and polluting our oceans. As usual, Indians GET SCREWED. Some whacked out racists organized under the name of S.E.D.N.A. have attacked the Indians physically and verbally for recently recovering a small bit of their culture with the limited taking of the Bowhead whale. TYPICAL! These losers using the name of the goddess is not only ironic, it is stupid and REALLY BAD KARMA, YA'LL. The European expansionists, Japanese and Russion commercial fishermen take the whales like gluttons and then expect our native people to eat dirt. TYPICAL!
