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But in any case it cannot be denied that in the red Indian mythology of New England, and of Canada and New Brunswick, we have a collection of vigorous, icy, powerful legends, like those of a strong northern race, while those of the middle continent, or Chippewa, are far feebler and gentler. Hiawatha-Manobozho is to Glooskap as a flute to a war trumpet.
And since then the Indians who could not hold their tongues, and who might otherwise have been great, have dwindled to a little people. Eastern traditions concerning Hiawatha differ in many respects from those of the West. In the East he is known as Glooskap, god of the Passamaquoddies, and his marks are left in many places in the maritime provinces and Maine.
These were all devils in disguise, the spirits of foul poison, such as she deemed must kill even the Master. Now Glooskap, foreseeing all this, had taken with him, as he came, from a bog many cranberries. These are really the souls of still-born or murdered infants, who have become imps. The first thing which the angakok or sorcerer, who visits her must do is to free her from these pests.
Thirdly, man was made from the ash-tree. According to the Wabanaki, this was the order: First, two giants were born, one from his mother's armpit. Thirdly, man was made from the trunk of the ash. The account of the creation of the dwarfs is wanting in the present manuscript. Of the Great Deeds which Glooskap did for Men; how he named the Animals, and who they were that formed his Family.
But Glooskap pointed to a small island of granite which rose amid the waves, and it was covered with tall pine-trees. So they came in time to a very large island, where they drew up the canoe and hid it in the bushes. Then they went forward to seek for people, and found a village in which dwelt the chief who had the beautiful daughter, in seeking whom so many had lost their lives.
Again the chief smiled kindly and said in a coaxing tone, "Baby, come to me." Wasis looked again at the chief. Then he took a bite of the maple sugar. Glooskap then arose, frowning; he stamped his foot angrily, and he spoke savagely. "Baby, come to me." Wasis dropped his maple sugar. "Goo, goo!" he said; "Goo, goo! Goo, goo, goo!" "These must be his war-cries!" thought the chief.
Then Glooskap, who was seated in the tent, said, "Uncle, I will now make you the sogmo, or great chief of the Tortoises, and you shall bear up a great nation." In Mr. Rand's manuscript it is the smoke of the tent-fire. And removing his entrails he destroyed them, so that but one short one was left. And he cried aloud, "Milooks! But the nephew replied, "Not so. I am giving you great life.
Printed, but written in Indian-English. Manuscript: Six Stories of the St. Francis or Abenaki Indians. Taken down by Miss Abby Alger. Osgood's Maritime Provinces. In this work there are seven short extracts relative to Glooskap given without reference to any book or author. Of Glooskap's Birth, and of his Brother Malsum, the Wolf
Kitpooseagunow said "That will I." So Glooskap paddled, and soon the canoe passed over a mighty whale; in all the great sea there was not his like; but he who held the spear sent it like a thunderbolt down into the waters, and as the handle rose again to sight he snatched it up, and the great fish was caught. And as Kitpooseagunow whirled it on high, the whale, roaring, touched the clouds.
That it made a great impression upon the Indians is shown by its being told of Pulewech, the Partridge, who is a type of Glooskap, and who, like him, makes war on the powers of evil, set forth in the Porcupines.
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