World Turtle
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World Turtle (plural World Turtles)
- The mythical giant sea turtle or tortoise that upholds the World in various cosmologies.
- 1970, Hubert Sieben, Ian Fraser Grant, Bali: Morning of the World, page 6:
- In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness.
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a mythical giant turtle
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