GLUSK4BE THE TRANSFORMER 



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Here begins Gluskabe. When the Owner made the first man then 

 when the first man was made Gluskabe created himself out of the 

 left-over material, out of this earth left over, this earth sprinkled.' 

 That is why Gluskabe was so strong. Well, this Gluskabe was able 

 to create himself. Then he moved about in a sitting position. 

 Upon seeing this the Owner was astonished and he said, "How hap- 

 pened you to be here?" and Gluskabe told him, "Well, because I 

 formed myself from the waste pieces of earth out of which you made 

 the first man." Then the Owner told him, "You are indeed a very 

 wonderful man." And Gluskabe answered, "I am a wonderful man, 

 because you sprinkled me, and on account of being so near to you." 

 Then Owner said to him, "So, then, you and I shall roam about from 

 now on." Accordingly, they started out. They went up a hill, 

 they went up a mountain, and when they got on top of the moun- 

 tain, when they began to gaze all around with open eyes, so great a 

 distance around could they see the lakes, the rivers, and the trees, 

 and all the lay of the land of the country. Then the Owner said, 

 "Look at this; behold such is my wonderful work, all created by my 

 wish of mine. The earth, the water, the ocean, the rivers, the basins, 

 the lakes." Thenhesaid to Gluskabe, "Whatmightyou have brought 

 into existence?" Then he answered him, this Gluskabe. "I can not 

 bring a thing into existence, but, then, one thing maybe I can accom- 

 plish." Then he said, "Well, I could perhaps do one thing, make the 

 wind." Then said the Owner, "Well, then, make it; whatever you can 

 do, according to how powerful you are." Then, accordingly, he made 

 the wind. It began to blow. Then it increased so strong, the rising 

 wind, and then it blew harder until those trees were torn out by the 

 roots and blown over. Then said the Owner to Gluskabe, "That is 

 enough; I have seen your power, even what you can do." Then 

 said the Owner, "Now, I for my part. I will make a wind." Then, 

 accordingly, it commenced to blow in return. Then it blew so hard 

 that they could not hold on where they were standing(?); and it 

 blew so hard that the hair on the head of Gluskabe became all 

 tangled up. Then when he tried to smooth it out, the hair of his 

 head, all of it blew off and the head of hair that he had was all blown 

 off by the wind. That is the end of this story. 



1 The Owner here corresponds to the Creator. The sprinkling evidently refers to the Koman Catholic 

 idea of holy water. 



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