Great Bear Wilderness Sea Born

to hold him caused kukutux to feel both empty and perhaps alive, the piece of her which remembered his birth, how she had grown this weeping man inside her own body.

"because you do not yet know what it is to be back among those who live, mauruk," kukutux said quietly. 

"you were a boy who did not know his spirit name. you died before the spirits knew your face. we sang you to the lights. now you have come back. your face is the same but your name has changed. but to them, to the spirits, you must be born a second time."