The Iroquois Creation Myth: "The World on Turtle's Back"
Question 6 of 10 • 26-27 MS-English III Initial Credit
One day, when the girl had become a woman, a man appeared. No one knows where this man came from. Perhaps he was sent from the Gods above. The girl was so filled with wonder to see this strange man, she lost her senses and fainted. The man yielded two very different arrows, and laid them across the body of the girl in opposite directions, then he disappeared.
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They represent the fact that the woman will die in childbirth.
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They represent a warning from the man to the woman.
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They represent the man’s intention to kill the woman.
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They represent the twins that the woman will bear.