Sedna swims up from the deep into global consciousness

Don't you think it's extremely interesting that the scientists who discovered the newest planetoid beyond Pluto have named her Sedna, for the Inuit underworld sea goddess? Not a male god from classical mythology, but a goddess from a North American indigenous culture. I wonder who chose the name, and why? And I wonder what qualities astrologers will assign to Sedna, once they begin to study her myth and where She appears in natal charts.

Just found this nugget:

Announcing the name Sedna, Dr Mike Brown, leader of the Cal Tech research team, said: "We knew it could end up being the coldest, most distant object in the entire Solar System. Early one day we decided it was appropriate to name any objects out of this region after Arctic mythology."

Ah, well that makes sense. But there are many mythological Arctic characters -- why Sedna? Can it be yet another example of the return of the Goddess?

Sedna has been on my list of "Goddesses I'd like to paint" for a long time, but She never made it up to the top. I found a number of Sedna images on the web, all different, all powerful:

Goddess artist Hrana Janto's painting of Sedna

A soapstone carving called "Appeasing Sedna" by Inuit artist Bill Nasogaluak

An actress wearing a mask created by Lauren Raine for a ritual theatre production, "The Tale of Sedna." This page has several excellent Sedna stories and interpretations.