Last Updated: Saturday, July 17, 1999

Penobscot

In the beginning there was only Kloskurbeh, the All-Maker. One day from the foam of a wave a young lad was born. He became Helper-to-the-All-Maker. The two of them created animals, plants and all manner of things. Another day a beautiful woman was born of a magical plant and some dew. This woman, First Mother, married the Helper and produced many children. When there became too many people to live off the animals, First Mother asked her husband to kill her and drag her body back and forth across the land, and then bury her in the center of the field. He did as she asked and months later when he and the children returned to the field they found it full with ripe corn and in the center where he had buried her was fragrant tobacco.

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