Tabaldak
Wabanaki · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Abenaki/Wabanaki supreme creator, 'the Owner' (Gici Niwaskw, the Great Spirit), an impersonal androgynous maker. After fashioning humans, the dust of his body becomes Gluskap; he grants Gluskap the power to make a good world.
Children
Domains
- creation
- the cosmos
Powers
- Create the first humans from the earth
- Bring forth Gluskap from the dust of his hand
Relations
- ancestor of: GluskapCreator 'the Owner' who makes Gluskap from the dust of his hand; Gluskap carries Tabaldak as parent.C. G. Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884); F. Speck, Penobscot Man (1940) (primary)
- ancestor of: MalsumMaker of the wolf-twin Malsum, who carries Tabaldak as parent.C. G. Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) (secondary)