ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -More than 50, 000 Iroquois live in the United States today. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is an Iroquois (GrPE-kwoiQ) creation story filled with conflict and compelling characters. The Iroquois passed down this story from one generation to the next by telling it in elaborate performances.

Detailed explanation-2: -2) Encyclopedia Britannica classifies creation myth into six types: cre-ation by creator, creation through emergence, creation by world parents, creation from the cosmic egg, creation by Earth divers, creation by corpse transformation.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Turtles all the way down” is a humorous expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea that the earth rests on the back of a large beast (World Turtle/Tortoise) or beasts (World Elephants). Those beasts, in turn stand on the back of another beast.

Detailed explanation-4: -The themes with in “The Earth on Turtles Back” are one thing must end for another to begin, importance of animals, and belief in dreams. To begin, the first theme in the story is one thing must end for another to begin.

Detailed explanation-5: -A creation myth is a supernatural mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe (cosmogony), usually as a deliberate act of “creation” by one or more deities.