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Post by brandonina on Dec 16, 2012 0:46:54 GMT -5
Hey guys, I always make a new post in order to know what connections you made while reading this story. The only connection that I think I made was the Avatar (I swear I was the first person to talk about this. haha jkjk), which is pretty similar to the Native American culture. The tree, in Avatar is indeed the center of the blue people's world and the tree in the story plays a similar role. Returning a dead body and the cycle of life/nature is dealt in both the movie and the story. Using bows and arrows to kill animals, which is a daily sacrifice, and borrowing the nature are shown in both as well. So, What connections did you make? If there is any, did you perhaps make one dealing with a child being born from his mother's armpit? Just saying
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Post by gb1708 on Dec 16, 2012 10:08:36 GMT -5
I think about others aspect of the story that is the balance between good and evil in the story.Before reading the story, I totally think that the true and the good will be won. But the fact is both of them are not win. If the good defeats one evil enemy and then, other evil enemy will come out and if the good lose they will win later as well. You can easily connect this aspect of the story to a lot of things such as "Power Ranger, Supper man, Bat man,...."
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Post by yeajinchoi on Dec 16, 2012 11:25:10 GMT -5
I think the concept of the twins and the grandmother turning into day and night/moon was a connection with other creation myths as well. I don't remember exactly what but I recall learning about a creation myth and the original starters? of the world died and eventually became the sun and the moon or something like that. I feel like it's a common thing for creation myths. The original people become the most basic aspects of nature. (day, night, water, the sky,.. etc)
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Post by sergeyfen on Dec 16, 2012 20:49:30 GMT -5
I have been watching a tv show recently, there were also twins its kind of different but relates. One twin wanted them to be together so he would kill people who he thinks are one their way to be together, but that what he thought. The other twin is the good one, he didnt want anyone to die and he just said how stupid his twin brother thinks and acts. At the time when bad twin was about to kill good twin's brother twin, good twin killed him second before bad twin murdered a guy.
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Post by lukejoo1092 on Dec 17, 2012 6:28:51 GMT -5
Hmm, a connection I made (barely) was the creation myth of Koreans. We have a myth that there was a Sky God and he had a son. The prince was interested in the land below so he took a few of his people and went down. He met a bear and a tiger who wanted to become people. He said that if they were to eat garlic for 100 days straight inside a cave without seeing sunlight, they will become humans. The tiger, however, failed to do so and went out. The bear on the other hand endured and succeeded. Then she turned into a woman and married with the prince. They gave birth to a child who became the first leader of the Koreans. It isn't exactly a creation myth but how people from the sky came down and created people seemed similar.
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Post by sazad100 on Dec 18, 2012 21:44:20 GMT -5
The only connection I can make with the tree is Genesis. It is the story of Adam and Eve, there was a tree called the tree of knowledge and Adam ate an apple from that tree. And the battle between the two brothers reminded me of Zeus and Hades. Zeus is the god of the sky and Hades god of the underworld and the hate each other.
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Post by |Ruchira| on Dec 19, 2012 6:23:25 GMT -5
as i mentioned in a post of mine, i personally found the story a world on a turtles back super weird. and in my culture or even growing up i never heard stories explaining nature and how things work. i guess the most popular story of how things came to be, i know of is, adam and eve.
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Post by jungholee on Dec 19, 2012 10:56:28 GMT -5
well i think most of the any other religions have connection with the turtle thing. Because many religions having balance in their world such as light and dark. And Big bang thing, you know that beginning of space. I think the part of beginning of the world is similar because they both born in one thing
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Post by nadiraamalina on Dec 21, 2012 2:31:40 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned the story of Cain and Abel? It's really similar to this tale because they both have a man and a woman who are a couple that live in the world in the sky, or heaven, and the the left and right twin and Cain and Abel are both related to the couple that live in the sky.
Abel is the right twin because he was considered the 'good' one, while Cain is comparable to the left twin because they were chaotic and 'sinful'. But that's where the similarities end because in Cain and Abel, the 'good' twin dies while in The World on a Turtle's back, the chaotic twin dies.
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Post by junilee26 on Dec 25, 2012 8:44:21 GMT -5
When i first hear the title, i connected to a Korean folk tale where it is about a turtle with the sea world. However, it was totally different to the Korean folk tale. I found this story very interesting and it was a story that i've never heard before. I enjoyed every bits of meaningful tings we've analyzed throughout reading this story.
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Post by james on Dec 25, 2012 9:15:56 GMT -5
Well, i think any creation story is related to the world on the turtles back not just realigious but also scientific such as the big bang theory it shows how the universe was created and adam and eve was another creation story which is very religious story they al lare similar i guess but i cant really think of any right now..
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Post by sorn on Dec 27, 2012 0:28:10 GMT -5
The tree in this story connects to the story of Buddha in our religion. There are altogether 29 different trees where our Buddha sat under that tree and practice his meditation and saw the world for what it really was, how it worked, and why we suffered. Through his meditation he then found his mind at peace. He attained enlightenment and became a Buddha. This tree is called Bodhi Tree and Thai people believe that it is the tree of life. According to srimahabodhi.org/ it states that: "A Buddhist monk is prohibited from cutting down a tree or having a tree cut down not only because it has life but because it could also be the abode of a deity. The Book of the Discipline, which lays down rules for the proper behaviour of monks, states specifically that there is an offence of expiation, pacittiya, for the destruction of vegetable growth, by which is meant five different kinds of propagation: what is propagated from roots, from stems, from joints, from cuttings and from seeds." So this is just some extra information that I would like to add to my post. Even the story might not relate to this post but the symbolization of the tree connects directly to our culture!
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Post by KevinW on Dec 29, 2012 9:12:52 GMT -5
In terms of the actual creation itself, I thought about our Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, then realized there were no similarities. I even squinted! And still turned up with nothing! WotTB is a singularly unique tale that I have never seen from any else.
It is curious, though,, to see trees being seen under holy light. Yggdrasil, three trees in Genesis, WotTB, the once-in-a-thousand-year peach on a peach tree (Daoism), and funny enough, evolutionary trees. Huh.
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Post by JustinK. on Jan 12, 2013 2:43:24 GMT -5
I agree with brandon's connection. After reading The World on the Turtle's Back, you must've thought of Avatar right away. The concept of trees being the center of the tribe occurs in Avatar. The "blue people" lost their hope when the tree was burnt down. After that, they moved to a place with many smaller trees as their home.
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Post by elisalee on Jan 12, 2013 20:11:05 GMT -5
I also thought of the movie Avatar because the tree was the most important center of people. I think the overall flow of the story changed over time because of the tree that they treat as their center.
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