Tabaldak Creates Glooscap and Malsumis
In Abenaki tradition, the Great Spirit Tabaldak first created the world and all the people. When he finished making humans, he wiped the dust from his hands, and from this divine dust were born twin brothers — Glooscap and Malsumis. Glooscap was given the power to create a good world, full of kind animals, sweet fruits, and gentle rivers. Malsumis, the wolf, was his opposite, creating only evil — dangerous animals, thorns, and crooked rivers that flooded the land. From birth, Malsumis resented his brother and plotted to destroy him. Glooscap discovered that his brother could only be killed by