ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The woman took a tiny amount of dirt and placed it in the middle of the turtle’s back & began walking in circles (in the direction the sun takes), creating the earth. The arrows the man brings to the woman represent what? The twins she was going to have.

Detailed explanation-2: -These two brothers, as they grew up, represented two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these the right and the wrong. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the upright man and the devious man, the right and the left. The twins had creative powers.

Detailed explanation-3: -These two beings rule the world and keep an eye on the affairs of men. The right-handed twin, the Master of Life, lives in the Sky-World. He is content with the world he helped to create and with his favorite creatures, the humans. The scent of sacred tobacco rising from the earth comes gloriously to his nostrils.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Iroquois, like most Native American peoples, emphasize the importance of living in harmony with the natural world through the creation myth “The World on a Turtle ‘s Back” which expresses the relations toward all living things.

Detailed explanation-5: -Which statement best describes the significance of the arrows? They represent the twins that the woman will bear. neither twin could die because they were immortal gods.