Glooscap the Algonquin hero and creator.

Glooscap was a Algonquian hero and a creator of both animals and humans. He was more or less a demi god. We are starting with the creation story and then to his defeat of the water monster holding the World's water all to his own.
GLOOSCAP AND THE BABY
[ALGONQUIAN] For many Algonquian tribes, such as the Passamaquoddy of Maine the great Glooscap was First Man, culture hero, demiurge, trickster and god.
Glooscap, having conquered the Kewawkqu', a race of giants and magi- cians, and the Medecolin, who were cunning sorcerers, and Pamola, a wicked spirit of the night, besides hosts of fiends, goblins, cannibals, and witches, felt himself great indeed, and boasted to a woman that there was nothing left for him to subdue But the woman laughed and said: "Are you quite sure, Master? There is still One who remains unconquered, and nothing can overcome him. In some surprise Glooscap inquired the name of this mighty one "He is called Wasis,"' replied the woman, "but I strongly advise you to have no dealings with him. Wasis was only a baby, who Sat on the floor sucking a piece of maple sugar and crooning a little song to himself. Now Glooscap had never married and was ignorant of how children are managed, but with perfect confidence he smiled at the baby and asked it to come to him. The baby smiled back but never moved, whereupon Glooscap imitated a beautiful birdsong. Wasis, however, paid no attention and went on sucking his maple sugar. Unaccustomed to such treatment, Glooscap lashed himself into a Tage and in terrible and threatening accents ordered Wasis to come to him at once. But Wasis burst into dire howls, which quite drowned the god's thundering and would not budge for any threats. Glooscap, thoroughly  aroused, summoned all his magical resoures He recited the most terrible spells, the most dreadful incantations. He sang the songs which raise the dead, and those which send the devil scurying to the nethermost depths. But Wasis merely smiled and looked a trifle bored. At last Glooseap rushed from the hut in despair, while Wasis, sitting on the Aloor, cried, 'Goo. goo!" And to this day the Indians say that when a baby says "Goo, he remembers the time when he conquered mighty Glooscap

GLOOSCAP FIGHTS THE WATER MONSTER [PASSAMAQUODDY, MIGMAG, AND MALISEWT)
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Glooscap yet lives, somewhere at the southern edge of the world. He never grows old, and he will Jast as long as this world lasts.Sometimes Glooscap gets tired of running the world, ruling the animals, regulating nature, instructing people how to live. Then he tells us: "Y'm tired of it. Good-bye; I'm going to make myself die now. With his magic white canoe and disappears in misty clouds. But he always He paddles off in his back. He cannot abandon the People forever
Glooscap is a cannot live spirit, medicine man, a and women smile He can do anything- a sorcerer Glooscap made all the animals, creating them to be peaceful and He can make men useful to humans When he formed the first squirrel, it was as big a whale. "What would you do if I let you loose On the world?" Glooscap asked, and the squirrel attacked a big tree, chewing it to pieces in no as time. "You're too destructive for your Size, said Glooscap. and remade him small. The first beaver also was as big as a whale and it built dam that fooded the country from horizon to horizon. Glooscap said, "Youll drown all the people if let you loose like this.'" He tapped the beaver on the back, and it shrank to its present size, The first moose was so tall that it reached to the Sky and looked altogether different from the way it loks now. It trampled everything in its path--forests, mountains everything You'll ruin everything, Glooscap said. "You'll step on people and kill them." Glooscap tapped the moose on the back to make it small, but the moose refused to become smaller. So Glooscap killed it and recreated it in a different size and with a different look. In this Glooscap made everything as it should be. Glooscap had also created a village and taught the People there everything they needed to know. They were happy hunting and fishing Men and women were happy making love. Children were happy playing.  Sioux Parents cherished their children, and children respected their parents. All was well as Glooscap had made it. The village had one spring, the only source of water far and wide that always flowed with pure, clear, cold water. But one day the spring ran dry only a little bit of slimy ooze issued from? it.-It-stayed_dry even in the fall when the rains came, and in the spring -when the snows melted. The people wondered, "'What shall we đo Wercan't live with- out water." The wise men and elders held a council and decided to send a man north to the source of the spring to see why it had run dry. This man walked a long time until at last he came to ra village. The people there were not like humans; they had webbed hands and feet. Here the brook widened out. There was some water in zit, not much, but a litle, though it was slimy, yellowish, and stinking. The man was thirsty from his walk and asked to be given a litle water, 'even if it was bad. hands and feet, "unless "We can't give you any water," said the people with the webbed great chief permits it. He wants all the our
water for himself." "Where is your chief?" asked the man.
"You must follow the brook further up,"" they told him. The man walked on and at last met a
the big chief. When he saw him he trembled with fright, because the chief was if one stood at his feet, one could not see his head. The monster filled
monster so huge that the whole valley from end to end. He had dug himself a huge hole and dammed it up, so that all the water was in it and none could flow into the stream bed. And he had fouled the water and made it poisonous, so that stinking mists covered its slimy surface. The monster had a mile-wide, grinning mouth going from ear to ear. His dull yellow eyes started out of his head like huge pine knots. His monster stared dullý at the man with his protruding eyes and finally body was bloated and covered with warts as big as mountains. The said in a fearsome croak: "Little man, what do you want? The man was terrified, but he said: "I come from a village far down- stream. Our only spring ran dry, because you're keeping all the water please don't muddy it so much." lor yourself. We would like you to let us have some of this water. Also, The monster blinked at him a few times. Finally he roaked: Do as you please Do as you please, I don't care, I don't care,
If you want water, If you want water, Go elsewhere!
The man said. "We need the water. The people are dying of thirst. The monster replied:
don't care, don't care, Don't bother me, Don't bother me, Go away, Go away, Or I'l swallow you up!
the The monster opened his mouth wide from ear to ear, and inside it man could see the many things that the creature had killed. The monster gulped a few times and smacked his lips with a noise like as fast as he could. thunder. At this the man's courage broke, and he turned and ran away Back at his village the man told the people: "Nothing If we complain, this monster will swallow us up. Hell kill us all." can be done. Glooscap knows everything that goes The People were in despair. "What shall we do?" they cried. Now, happens He sees everything with his inward eye, He said: "I must set on in the world, even before it things right. I'll have to get water for the people!" Paint as red as blood. He made himself twelve feet tall. He used two Then Glooscap girded himself for war. He painted his body with huge clamshells for his earrings. He put a hundred black eagle feathers and a hundred white eagle feathers in his scalp. Jock He-painted yellow rings around his eyes He twisted his mouth into snarl and made him- self look ferocious. He stamped, and the earth trembled. He uttered his fearful war cry, and it echoed and re echoed from all tlic mountains. He grasped huge mountain in his hand, a mountain composed of flint, and from it made himself single knife sharp as a weasel's teeth "Now I am going, he said, striding forth among thunder and lightning with mighty eagles circling above him. Thus Glooscap came to the village of the people with webbed hands and feet. "I want water,"' he told them. Looking at him, they were afraid. They brought him a little muddy water. "I think get more and cleaner water, he said. Glooscap went upstream and confronted the- monster. I want clean water, he Said, a lot of it, for the People downstream.
Hol Ho! Ho! Ho! All the waters are mine! Allthe waters are mine! Go away! Go away! Or Ill kill you!
"Slimy lump of mud" cried Glooscap. ""Well see who will be kiled" They fought. The mountains shook. The earth Split open. The swamp smoked and burst into flames. Mightly trees were shivered into splinters. The monster opened its huge mouth wide swallow Glooscap. to Glooscap made himself taller than the tallest tree, and even the monster's mile-wide mouth was too small for him. Glooscap seized his great flint knife and slit the monster's bloated belly. From the wound gushed mighty stream, a roaring river, tumbling, rolling, foaming down, down, a down, gouging out for itself a vast, deep bed, flowing by the village and on to the great sea of the east. grasped the monster and squeezed him in his mighty palm, squeezed and "That should be enough water for the people,"' said Glooscap. He had squeezed this great creature into a small bullfrog, and ever since, squeezed and threw him away, flinging him into the swamp Glooscap the bullfrog's skin has been wrinkled because Glooscap squeezed so hard.