Abenaki mythology

thumb|Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884

mythology of American indigenous people

Tabaldak is the androgynous creator among the Abenaki and Algonquian people of northeastern North America. Their name means "The Owner" who "created all living things but one". Tabaldak created people out of stones, but thought these people's hearts were too cold. They broke up these stones and left them scattered over the Abenaki land. Next they tried wood, and out of these came the Abenaki people.