Re: OT-CHAT: GLOOSCAP award

Draw your own conclusions from
>From the legend of Glooscap;

In the beginning, the Indians tell the children, there was just the forest
and the sea--no people and no animals. Then Glooscap came. Where this
wondrous giant was born and when, they cannot tell, but he came from
somewhere in the Sky with Malsum his twin brother to the part of North
America nearest the rising sun. There, anchoring his canoe, he turned it
into a granite island covered with spruce and pine. He called the island
Uktamkoo, the land we know to day as Newfoundland. This, in the beginning,
was Glooscap's lodge. 

The Great Chief looked and lived like an ordinary Indian except that he was
twice as tall and twice as strong, and possessed great magic. He was never
sick, never married, never grew old, and never died. He had a magic belt
which gave him great power, and he used this power only for good. Malsum,
his brother, also great of stature, had the head of a wolf and the body of
an Indian. He knew magic too, but he used his power for evil.....
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