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== Oral Tradition,
* Mythologies from around the world came up with the idea of Earth as the body of a large creature, sometimes called a [[World Turtle]], often swimming in a cosmic ocean that predates the Earth, with the sky as another ocean above the firmament of stars.
* The mythologies of several Native American and First Nations cultures tell of a giant tortoise that rose out of the sea when animals needed land to live on. In fact, the Iroquois Creation Myth has the ''entire planet'' as just one really big turtle in an infinite sea. Some current-day Native Americans and First Nations peoples prefer to use "Turtle Island" instead of "North America", making them the [[Trope Namer]]; you'll hear the name used on the [[CBC]] Radio show ''Reclaimed''.
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