The World On The Turtle's Back

“The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a story about how the earth was created by a woman. Later that woman gave birth to two twins. The right-handed twin was the honest one who always did everything he was supposed to do. The left-handed twin was the bad twin who always lied and was dishonest. The left-handed twin was the reason their mother died because he was born out of their mom’s armpit. In ‘Odin and Ymir’, Ymir was slain by the youngest son Odin. Odin was the most powerful of the gods. Ymir’s

American literature has changed, it teaches us how we have become more independent ourselves. The World on a Turtle’s Back, a myth, The Scarlet Letter, a book in a puritan setting, and A Rose for Emily is a southern gothic story. American literature would not be the same today without these forms of writing. The teachings from these are passed down generation to generation. The World on a Turtle's Back is a Iroquois myth about the creation of earth. This belief is related to the biblical belief

yet different. One type of folktale is the creation myth written by the Iroquois, The World on the Turtle’s Back. It tells about the world and how it was created. Another type of folktale is a trickster tale, Coyote and the Buffalo, which tells the story of an arrogant, greedy coyote and a big buffalo. While both stories have their similarities, they also have their differences. In the World on the Turtle’s Back, there are two twins, the left-handed one and the right-handed one, one which is good

and the bear were made to make balance in the world. Without the good and the bad our earth wouldn't function because balance is needed for everything to work properly. Americans’ beliefs differ from the Iroquois’ because we believe that in the end, the good will always prevail. Meanwhile, the Iroquois think that the good and the bad are almost created equal because both are needed to make the universe run smoothly. 3) The World on the Turtle's Back is a typical creation myth because it tells a

with each other. “The World On The Turtle’s Back” also know as “Women who fell from the sky” is a tale of creation from the Iroquois nation, I chose this tale and the gender criticism view. For many many years, since the beginning men have been seen as the hunters, the providers, etc. and women seen as the caretaker, the loving, etc.. In the recent years things have greatly changed yet for some reason people still have that one minded view. In, “The World On The Turtle’s Back”, there are a lot of

In “The World on The Turtle's Back,” by the Iroquois, it takes on the task of explaining how the Earth came to be. There are four functions to a myth which are a Metaphysical, to instill awe, sociological, to support customs, pedagogical, to guide people, and Cosmological, to explain the world. I will discus the cosmological aspects of this story. In this myth the Iroquois explain why the sun moves the way it does, how animals came to be, why there is a balance in nature, and lastly what created

see many things differently. One such thing is whether or not curiosity should be valued. The Iroquois see curiosity as a bad thing, and reflect curiosity having bad consequences in “The World on the Turtle’s Back.” One such example of curiosity killing the cat occurs when a woman looks through a hole in her world, and “she fell through the hole” (Iroquois). If the woman weren’t so curious about what was beneath the hole, she would never have fallen through. Again this happens, later in the myth,

dream we must do all we can to make it true. The Great Tree must be uprooted." (Turtles Back) Native Americans did not have any way such of writing. So the elders taught the youth and eachother stories and life lessons by word of mouth. The Native Americans depended on nature to survive so much so that their way of life was depicted by nature. The sources When Grizzlies walked upright (source A), World on Turtles Back (Source B), and Navajo (Source C) all depict their way of life and nature in a common

Native American literature was mostly passed down from generation to generation. The Iroquois, in particular, passed down the creation myth, “The World on a Turtle’s Back”, which talks about how the world was created and educates the younger generation about the traditional Native American lifestyle and beliefs. The Iroquois use allusions to Native American traditional gender roles in order to teach the younger generations how to be proper Iroquois husbands and wives. For instance, the Iroquois warn

Iroquois tribe told the myth, The World on the Turtle’s Back, as a way to communicate their beliefs and ways of life to other people. One of the points addressed in the myth, is their attitude towards nature. The Iroquois believed nature to be godly. The world was made by a, possible, Goddess with the help of the animals, such as the turtle or the muskrat. The Goddess made the earth grow from a “tiny crumb of earth”. She then planted the roots she had grabbed from the Sky-World, where the gods live, into