World On The Turtle's Back Comparison

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Two Brothers and their Grandmother and The World on the Turtle’s Back bears several similarities and differences. A major comparison is both stories beginning with “Sky People”. In Two Brothers and their Grandmother, The sky was occupied with a tribe of humans. However, in The World on the Turtle’s Back the Sky World was inhabited by “people-like gods”. The story began with a husband and pregnant wife removing bark from a Great Tree and broke a hole through the ground. But, in Two Brothers and their Grandmother, the chief’s daughter fell ill and the people of the tribe dug a trench around a tall tree in hopes of curing her. This lead to the tree falling through and creating an abyss. Both stories included a female character falling through

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