Other versions of the legend depict Sedna as a beautiful maiden who rejects marriage proposals from the hunters of her village. When an unknown hunter appears, Sedna's father agrees to give her to him as wife in return for fish. Sedna's father gives Sedna a sleeping potion and gives her to the hunter who takes her to a large nest on a cliff, revealing his true form: a great bird-spirit (variously described as a raven, a fulmar or a Kokksaut / petrel-spirit). She wakes surrounded by birds. Her father attempts to rescue her, but the bird-spirit becomes angry, causing a great storm. In desperation, Sedna's father throws her into the raging sea. Attempting to cling to the kayak, her hands freeze and her fingers fall off becoming the creatures of the sea. She falls to the bottom of the sea and grows a fishtail.
other versions of the legend depict sedna as a beautiful maiden who rejects marriage proposals from the hunters of her village when an unknown hunter appears sedna's father agrees to give her to him as wife in return for fish sedna's father gives sedna a sleeping potion and gives her to the hunter who takes her to a large nest on a cliff revealing his true form a great bird-spirit (variously described as a raven a fulmar or a kokksaut / petrel-spirit) she wakes surrounded by birds her father attempts to rescue her but the bird-spirit becomes angry causing a great storm in desperation sedna's father throws her into the raging sea attempting to cling to the kayak her hands freeze and her fingers fall off becoming the creatures of the sea she falls to the bottom of the sea and grows a fishtail