Legend of Glooskap; Virtual Rewards 2.0
Mi’kmaq are Indigenous peoples who are among the original inhabitants in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Mi’kmaq culture and traditional religion is based on legendary figures like Glooskap (also written Kluscap. Glooskap was said by the Mi'kmaq to be great in size and in powers, and to have created many natural features such as the Annapolis Valley.
In carrying out his feats, he often had to overcome his evil twin brother who wanted rivers to be crooked and mountain ranges to be impassable; in one legend, he turns the evil twin into stone. Glooskap, lived in a large wigwam on Cape Blomidon where the provincial park is today.
Many geographical features of Nova Scotia have legendary explanations in which Glooskap figures largely; for example, his - enemy, a giant beaver had Minas Basin as his lake with a dam from Cape Split to Cape Chignecto. Glooskap broke down the rocky dike and killed, the beaver with shrapnel which turned into the Five Islands in Minas Basin.
His dogs pursued a moose to the point of Cape Chignecto, but could not follow any farther as Moose took to the water. Glooskap turned the moose into an island—the Isle of Haute and the dogs into rocks that can be seen to this day.
On the arrival of the white man, Glooskap became so enraged that he took the great stone kettle in which he boiled the bones of the animals captured on a hunting expedition, and turned it upside down in Minas Basin and left the country in disgust. This is the legendary origin of the small round Spenser Island.
Glooskap is also believed to have brought the Mi'kmaq earthenware, knowledge of good and evil, fire, tobacco, fishing nets, and canoes, making him a cultural hero.
To log this virtual you must:
1 - Take a picture of your gps, or trackable or a piece of paper with the geocacher’s username with Glooskup’s home in the background.
2 - Tell us if you felt Glooskups spirit in your log.
3 - Count the number of black lantern, light post in the parking lot.
4 - Name two of the birds that migrate through the Minas Basin
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.