Hoshor Plains mothersea

"it is the name of my clan. they are the seal hunter people." 
they are your people too, maggak, and his heart hurt within him.
toward his scars she reached. "when a seal hunter boy is ready to become a man, he must kill a seal in the water. if he succeeds, the spirit-talker of his village makes these marks. his brothers and cousins hold him down. it is great pain. horrible pain. he must not cry," chakliux explained. "it is tooth that cuts the marks. then we blacken them with water and crushed abalone shell. more pain. but when it is over, you do not feel it, for now you are a man."
"once you have been been beneath the sea, the pain is not so great. once you have seen that huge fear, and fought it, you are no longer afraid of pain."