World+onthe+Turtle's+Back

A creation mythe are use in many ways and for may puposes in many different cultures. In a myth theire is a story that has a lesson behind it for example "The World on the Turtle's Back" is telling how the world was created. To be specific a creation myth is to explain the cultural beliefs of how something is created.In reference to the story "The World on the Turtle's Back" is that the women fell out the sky and landed on the turle back and she started to create what we know today as the world. The creations myths serves many purposes. The four purposes are to instill awe, to guide people, to support customs, and to explain nature. An example of instill, awe would be two arrows onthe mother's stomach andshe had twins baby which represent, in my words "Good and Evil". When you refer to guide people would be how the mother body parts was use for the earth and that could also be under the purpose nature. An example of customs is the right hand brother killed his left hand brother who killed the mother.