Glooscap - Bar Harbor Maine
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N 44° 25.871 W 068° 16.281
19T E 557994 N 4920023
The Trail of the Whispering Giants is a collection of sculptures by Hungarian-born artist Peter Wolf Toth. This was his 46th carving
Waymark Code: WMQ97Q
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2016
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Glooscap is the benevolent culture hero of the Wabanaki tribes of northeast New England. His name is spelled so many different ways for two reasons: first, these tribes spoke slightly different languages, and second, the languages were traditionally unwritten, so English speakers just spelled the name however it sounded to them at the time. Although some people have said "Glooscap" means "Man From Nothing" (or "Man who made himself from nothing,") that is incorrect-- it is a different Abenaki character, Odzihozo, whose name has that meaning. Glooscap actually means "liar" (the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy word for "to tell lies" is koluskapiw, and in Mi'kmaq, it is kluskapewit.) According to legend, Glooscap got this name after lying about his secret weakness to an evil spirit (in some stories, his own brother) and therefore escaping from a murder plot.
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