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World Turtle
The World Turtle (also referred to as the Cosmic Turtle, the World-bearing Turtle, or the Divine Turtle) is a mytheme of a giant turtle (or tortoise) supporting or containing the world. The mytheme, which is similar to that of the World Elephant and World Serpent, occurs in Chinese mythology and the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The "World-Tortoise" mytheme was discussed comparatively by Edward Burnett Tylor (1878:341).
==India==
An example of a reference to a World Turtle in Hindu literature is found in Jñānarāja (the author of ''Siddhāntasundara'', writing c. 1500): "A vulture, which has only little strength, rests in the sky holding a snake in its beak for a prahara (hours ). Why can (deity ) in the form of a tortoise, who possesses an inconceivable potency, not hold the Earth in the sky for a ''kalpa'' (of years )?"〔 Toke L. Knudsen, (Indology mailing list ).
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The British philosopherJohn Locke made reference to this in his 1689 tract, ''An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'', which compares one who would say that properties inhere in "substance" to the Indian, who said the world was on an elephant, which was on a tortoise, "but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied—something, he knew not what."〔Locke, John (1689). ''An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'', Book II, Chapter XXIII, section 2〕
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