The World on the turtles back
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- In the middle of the Sky-World there grew a Great Tree which was not like any of the trees that we know. It was tremendous; it had grown there forever. It had enormous roots that spread out from the floor of the Sky-World. And on its branches there were many different kinds of leaves and different kinds of fruit sand flowers. The tree was not supposed to be marked or mutilated by any of the beings who dwelt in the Sky-World. It was a sacred tree that stood at the center of the universe.
- The woman took the tiny clod of dirt and placed it on the middle of the great sea turtle’s back. Then the woman began to walk in a circle around it, moving in the direction that the sun goes. The earth began to grow.
- the left-handed twin died, but he died and he didn’t die. The right-handed twinpicked up the body and cast it off the edge of the earth. And some place below theworld, the left-handed twin still lives and reigns.When the sun rises from the east and travels in a huge arc along the sky dome,which rests like a great upside-down cup on the saucer of the earth, the people arein the daylight realm of the right-handed twin. But when the sun slips down in thewest at nightfall and the dome lifts to let it escape at the western rim, the people areagain in the domain of the left-handed twin—the fearful realm of night.Having killed his brother, the right-handed twin returned home to his
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