Glooscap

Also called Gluskabe, Gluskap, Glooskap, Koluskap.

The Wabanaki culture hero of the Dawnland, who tamed the winds, secured food and water, shaped the country, and went west to make arrows for the last day.

Tradition: Algonquian folklore
Region: North America (place of origin)
Trait family: The Land-Shapers
Symbols: arrow

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Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

arrow bears The arrow denotes directed force, penetration, war, lightning, rain, fertility, solar rays, and irreversible action; Mesopotamian imagery also uses it for the star Sirius.
why
The Wabanaki culture hero of the Dawnland, who tamed the winds, secured food and water, shaped the country, and went west to make arrows for the last day.

Traits

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Offensive powers

Weather manipulation
why
He puts the winds in order.

Utility powers

Terrain shaping
why
He works the shape of the country, so that the land itself becomes the record of where he has been and what he did there.
Knowledge bestowal
why
Most tellings make him neither a god nor a man but something deliberately between the two: possessed of supernatural power and using it to make the world habitable, teaching people how to handle growing things and animals without wasting them, and how to put up shelter and make what a household needs.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.