The designated call-and-response for today has allowed me to combine some research lists, that of shark species and Ocean goddesses. Now, the competent marine biologists among you will no doubt be able to tell me exactly which of the following sharks have no interest in eating sea otters, but for now let’s just go with the flow, alright?
Sea Otter Prayer
Sedna, mother of storms,
From Blacktips save us
From Silvertips, Silkys,
Duskys, Coppers, Blues.
Deliver us safe from their mouths
Nerrivik, lady of the deep places,
From Tigers keep us
From Leopards, and Smoothhounds
Sharptoothed, Grey and Brown.
Delivers us safe from their mouths.
Arnakuagsak, daughter of the creator,
Protect us from Hammerheads,
Malletheads, Bonnetheads,
Bulls, Swells and Sicklefins.
Deliver us safe from their hunger.
Arnapkapfaaluk, Big Bad Woman
Let us not fall into the Megamouth,
Keep far from us your Goblins,
Horns, Nurses, Pacific Angels.
Deliver us safe from their hunger.
We are the smallest of your fingers
Cut from you and fallen in the bitter sea.
Gather us away from Great Whites.
Sedna, deliver us.
Kirsten Luckins 