{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "sedna-hands",
 "type": "motif",
 "names": {
  "name": "Sedna's hands"
 },
 "region": [
  "arctic"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "does": "protect"
 },
 "mark": {
  "does": "Hand and arm marks referring to where the sea goddess's fingers were cut off.",
  "where": [
   "hands",
   "arms"
  ],
  "earned": false
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Hand and arm marks referring to where the sea goddess's fingers were cut off.",
  "story": "Sedna's severed fingers became the sea animals. A woman without hand marks was refused the good afterlife; one without face marks went to the land of the crestfallen. The marks are a passport as much as an ornament."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ลายที่มือและแขน อ้างถึงตำแหน่งที่นิ้วของเทพีแห่งทะเลถูกตัด"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kakiniit",
   "as": "The tradition it belongs to.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-kakiniit"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-kakiniit"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}