The Transformer Who Became the Mountains (Coast Salish)
The Coast Salish tell of a Transformer (Xe'las) who walked through the land making the world right for the coming humans. Near Lake Chelan, he encountered people who had become corrupted by greed and selfishness. He transformed them into stone, their canoes becoming islands in the lake. Near the Fraser River, he found a woman with a vagina full of teeth who emasculated men — he turned her into a rock formation that still guards the river. In the San Juan Islands, he found two sisters fighting over a man and turned them into a pair of islands called The Sisters. The Transformer also created Mou