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Glooscap

Glooscap, the culture hero, transformer of the Eastern Woodlands Indigenous people.
Glooscap Creates the West Isles
Glooscap in Truro
Glooscap monument in Truro Heritage Centre, Nova Scotia.

Glooscap, the culture hero, transformer of the Eastern Woodlands Indigenous people. Huge in size and powers, Glooscap is said to have created natural features such as the Annapolis Valley, in the process often having to overcome his evil twin brother who wanted rivers to be crooked and mountains impassable. Glooscap slept across NS, using as his pillow PEI, known to the Indigenous people as Abegweit, meaning "Cradled on the Waves."

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