![]() Allashua doesn't want to give them up, but what can she do? After all, a promise is a promise.Ī Promise Is a Promise is a collaboration between award-winning storyteller Michael Kusugak and celebrated children's author Robert Munsch. But the only way to break out of their grasp is through an exchange: Allashua can go free if she brings her brothers and sisters back to the sea ice instead. When Allashua disobeys her parents and goes fishing on the sea ice, she has to use her wits to escape the Qallupilluit-the troll-like creatures her parents have always warned her about that live beneath the frozen surface of the sea. This tale shares the specific traditional story of the Mother of the Sea told and retold in Greenland for generations. Only a shaman is able to appease the Mother of the Sea and convince her to release the animals that the hunters so desperately need. Known by many names across various regions of the Arctic, the Mother of the Sea is a powerful woman who can withhold the animals humans need to survive if she is displeased by human behaviour. The Mother of the Sea is an important character in Inuit traditional stories shared across the circumpolar region. But the journey is dangerous and the old woman does not know if she will be able to please the Mother of the Sea and convince her to free the animals the people of her community so desperately need. An old couple, once great shamans, are asked to journey to the Mother of the Sea to find out what happened to the animals. The sea animals have disappeared, and people are starving.
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