Sedna

[TheMusicalPsycho]

Dolphins=Smallest of the whales

[Leafheart12]

awesome I really like how you put the lyrics in the thingie below the vid lol

[KalteKriegAppocalyps]

I AM IN LOVE!!!!<3<3<3 ;3

[Zaferia10]

Some of the breathing really sounds like panting of snarling wolfs. That's really cool! I love this song like all of her songs it brings such beautiful pictures to my mind.

[jnilvr]

Thank you all for these great comments...this song came into my life last night at Faerieworlds/Eugene Oregon. What a talent and what a storyteller and  count me as a new devotee.

[ElianaDaizee]

i love this song, thx for uploading :)

[Suvikki74]

She should do the same with Finnish mythology. We have very rich, old culture and unique language. Ilmatar, female spirit of air; the daughter of primeval substance of creative spirit. Mother of Väinämöinen in Kalevala. The world was created so that she was laying in water and left her knee up so sotka, a bird thoughed it to be a piece of grassy land and started to lay eggs...Find out more.

[NaiTaiDai]

According to the storyI read, her father unwittingly married her to an arctic tern, yes?

[Swiftflower]

i am crazy about all of heather's songs, including this song, but when there's all that creepy breathing... creepy-ish.

[Lmotleygirl]

@Swiftflower I could be crazy, because I don't know much about the Inuit culture, but if I'm not mistaken, the breathing is traditional Inuit throat singing, a really really old traditional practice. Which is really cool!1

[IslandWolfess]

@Lmotleygirl You're spot on, It is indeed Inuit throat singing :)

[Lmotleygirl]

@IslandWolfess yay!1 well, not the story. the story is chilling. but yay throat singing!1 we had a throat singer at a festival once here in canada and it sounded really familiar :)

[Krysyana]

*shiver* In the story I heard, her dad married her of to some trickster god, then she ran away and clung to the side of his canoe while he was out fishing. Fearing divine wrath, he beat her frozen fingers 'till they cracked, and she tumbled away into the ocean, surrounded by whales and seals. Otters weren't mentioned, however. I didn't know they lived in such freezing conditions. Really cool song, though. It makes me almost feel freezing seaspray on my face. Brrr.

[genuinelyenigmatic]

@Krysyana Yeah, that's the version I know, read it in a book about dragons:)

[xBleachfan2000x]

@genuinelyenigmatic The Fire Eternal?

[Calegreyhound]

I saw her live yesterday and she was AMAZING. She is such an amazing musician!

[aazzuull912]

escuchaste a gustavo fuentes, tocando el aire o a xeito novo, son de mi pais

[MissUmekoSohma]

I really like this song!

[palliah2]

This and "Mordreds Lullaby" are now my two favorite songs ^_^

[mythstifieD]

This song is absolutely amazing! Are you talking about the Goddess? Or the planet?

[ElianaRei]

The song is referring to the Inuit goddess, Sedna.

[XxEtherealAngelxX]

This song is really good, I cant download it anywhere :( Can you please send it to me in an email if I give you my email adress?

[bookcreator]

Her songs are on iTunes now, and up on her website. As for CDs... I can't find one by her anywhere :(

[HeatherJDale]

HMV sell road to sandiago but thats the only one they sell xxx

[Magnetohydrodynamics]

@mythstifieD the dwarf planet is named after the godess. as are all other planets named for gods. the terrestrial and jovian ones are named after roman gods. Many of neptunes moons are named for nordic gods, many of saturn and jupiters moons are named for lesser greek divinities.

[LadyofNightWake]

Heather Dale is a true artist and Sedna is such a poetic, yet so sad a song, somewhere inside it resonates. Thanks fro posting it.

[stxyn]

Thank you so much posting this song! It is very important to me in my life right now.

[yummihunni]

SHE CAM TO MY SCHOOL TODAY....AND OMG THIS SONG GOT STUCK IN MY HEAD o_o

[warXnXpeace]

OMFG LUCKY!!!! My school wouldnt understand her if she came to us TT^TT

[Paradigm6790]

Bravo! 5 stars

[221b]

I'm detecting a distinct mammalian bias here. Was Senda too busy to offer a name to the Giant Isopods, or even a mollusc or two?

[ElianaRei]

LOL

Maybe she was trying to ignore any trilobites...those things would creep me out....

[Palladium107]

Maybe she was specifically the Native Goddess of Arctic Mammals?

[brigidmoon]

Sedna is an inuit deity. Her story is rather horrible. In one version ,she refuses to marry and her father takes her out into a boat and dumps her into the freezing water. She clings to the edge of the boat and he cuts off her fingers and she sinks into the cold water. Her fingers become the seals, otters and whales. There are other myths, but all end with Sedna's fingers being cut off and becoming seals, otters, and whales.

[bookcreator]

There's different versions to that but yes I think this song applied to that version.

[brigidmoon]

Yeah. Most creation myths have more than one version. i just picked the one I remembered best and, surprisingly, it fit the song.

[fujimiaaya]

Strangely this song calms me when I am nervous.

[WhiteWolfRider]

The version I heard involved Sedna being tricked into marrying a spirit bird. When her father came to rescue her, the bird caused a huge storm. In order to quell the storm, Sedna's father tossed her into the water and when she grabbed onto the side of the boat, he cut her fingers off, the blood caused the birth of various sea creatures. It's really the same story though. Sedna was tossed into the ocean by her father who cut her fingers off...

[captain237]

That's the same one I heard, too. Sedna is such great story any way it's told... she is completely compelling.

[maaneblomme]

@brigidmoon you can hear another version after Mordred's lullabye bye Heater D. /watch?v=WmYuqev5dIE

[hermesthegod1]

@brigidmoon Yup.  While the Inuit have some interesting stories, many of their stories are gory, horrifying and violent. Sedna is a creation story.

[7WishingStars]

@brigidmoon it ends good for Sedna though, she becomes queen of the underworld.

[hwerdschinski]

@221b

heheh. Actually, ALL life in the icy seas is attributed to her transforming her sacrifice & loss to empowerment... if Heather included a verse for everything, it'd be a pretty long song!

[Wolfan00]

@221b lol good point I think the Inuits were trying to explain why there were Mammals in the sea.

[xBleachfan2000x]

@Wolfan00 Then what about dolphins?

[Wolfan00]

@xBleachfan2000x I'm not sure, maybe Dolphins don't live in the area? I don't know much about Dolphins.

[Merrypaws]

@221b To the Inuit people seals and whales were a major food source, so it made sense to revere them as the goddess' gifts. Molluscs often live in deep waters, so the Inuit, who live in the arctic areas where the sea is frozen most of the year, most likely hardly ever even saw such creatures.

[emeraldwolfangel]

Beautiful and enchanting. I could listen for hours.

[animegirl259]

thank u sooooo much i love heather dale!!!!!!

[sasuke5379]

you r the best^^ for putting heather dale on youtube.she is the best

[ElianaRei]

I was very happy to get her newest CD so I could help put Heather Dale on the map a bit more. She is a very good singer.

[Crazygreendaygal]

Thanks for putting Heather Dale songs on Youtube! Hopefully this will get them more well known. I love Heather Dale!

[ElianaRei]

Oh, you're welcome :)

I love how emotional she makes the songs. It's very well done.

[icedragonchilde]

This is such an awesome song. Could you upload more of her stuff, if you have it?

[ElianaRei]

I actually have. If you look at my other videos, I have a good deal of her songs. I'll upload the rest of the songs from her that I own today.