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Published: 2019-12-11 05:18:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 539; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 1
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I've joined a group on Instagram where you complete 3 or more small trading cards every month that you participate and send them in and then receive cards from other members. You can find details about it here: pabkins.com/blog/May's theme was 'Littles & Colossus'. This was my first card for that month, the World Turtle.
For this card I found a Russian nesting doll of big and small in mythology. Multiple mythologies all over the world have stories of how our planet (which they thought was flat at the time) is propelling through space on the back of a giant turtle. It's really interesting that this thought was so widespread, from cultures that never had any contact like India and the Iroquois Nations. (Also, Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
I decided to go with the version from Hindu mythology, so I could add the elephants that came from their version. Tiny planet, colossal elephants; then tiny elephants, colossal turtle!
I hope this one found/finds a good home!
Picture completed in May of 2019.
All characters depicted here are the property of ME!
Media: Gouache and ink on paper
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The following anecdote is told of William James. After a lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system, James was accosted by a little old lady, who said "we live on a crust of earth which is on the back of a giant turtle."
"If your theory is correct, madam," he asked, "what does this turtle stand on?"
The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."
"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted James patiently.
To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,
"It's no use, Mr. James—it's turtles all the way down."
— J. R. Ross, Constraints on Variables in Syntax, 1967
Good artwork by the way, I like the texturing on the shell.
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I really enjoyed reading that.
Thanks for the compliment on my solitary unstacked turtle.
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