Tabaldak

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

• Gluskap
• Malsum

Domains

• creation
• the cosmos

Powers

• Create the first humans from the earth
• Bring forth Gluskap from the dust of his hand

Relations

• ancestor of: Gluskap
• ancestor of: Malsum

Sources

• Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)